TERESA MARGOLLES
Aproximación al lugar de los hechos (Proximity to the scene), 2020
Sound Installation: steel, 20 hot plates, dripping system and water extracted from sites where women were murdered in Sydney and its surrounding suburbs; red industrial curtains
20 steel plates: each 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in (60 x 60 cm)
Overall: 196 7/8 x 669 1/4 x 236 1/4 in (500 x 1700 x 600 cm)
Installation view: NIRIN, 22nd Biennale of Sydney, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
Photo: Zan Wimberley
TERESA MARGOLLES
El manto negro / The black shroud, 2020
1,600 burnished ceramic pieces hand-made by artisans in Mata Ortiz, Mexico
Dimensions variable
Each: Approx. 4 1/8 x 4 3/8 x 1 3/8 in (10.5 x 11 x 3.5 cm)
Edition of 3
JCG11131
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Dos bancos, 2020
Two benches made from a mixture of cement and material sourced from the ground where the body fell of a person shot dead at the northern Mexican border
Each: 19 3/4 x 17 3/4 x 55 1/8 in (50 x 45 x 140 cm)
JCG11283
TERESA MARGOLLES
Super Speed / El Paso, Texas, 2020
Pigmented inkjet print
Box of 24 cartridges purchased from Walmart, Gateway Blvd, El Paso, TX
Unframed: 26 x 35 3/8 in (66 x 90 cm)
Framed: 26 3/4 x 36 1/4 x 1 3/8 in (67.9 x 92.1 x 3.5 cm)
Receipt, 2020
Facsimile of receipt from purchase from Walmart, Gateway Blvd, El Paso, TX
5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in
13.3 x 8 cm
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
JCG11276
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pistas de Baile
2016
16 pigmented inkjet prints
Each print:
Unframed: 15 3/4 x 23 5/8 in (40 x 60 cm)
Framed: 16 1/4 x 24 3/8 in (45 x 64.5 cm)
Edition of 6 + 1 AP
JCG11016
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pistas de Baile, 2016
Detail
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Pistas de Baile, 2016
Detail
TERESA MARGOLLES
Sillón tapizado frente a línea fronteriza / Upholstered armchair facing a borderline
2019
Armchair recovered from the ruins of the Hotel Rex, a building in the historic center of Ciudad Juárez. The piece has been upholstered with fabric that previously absorbed fluids from a violent event that happened in the area. The cloth embedded inside the wall was dragged in that same location.
Chair: 33 3/4 x 31 1/2 x 35 in
85.7 x 80 x 88.9 cm
Cloth: Dimensions variable
TERESA MARGOLLES
Sillón tapizado frente a línea fronteriza / Upholstered armchair facing a borderline
2019
Armchair recovered from the ruins of the Hotel Rex, a building in the historic center of Ciudad Juárez. The piece has been upholstered with fabric that previously absorbed fluids from a violent event that happened in the area. The cloth embedded inside the wall was dragged in that same location.
Chair: 33 3/4 x 31 1/2 x 35 in
85.7 x 80 x 88.9 cm
Cloth: Dimensions variable
TERESA MARGOLLES
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion)
2018
Installation view: A new work by Teresa Margolles, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 6 May - 26 August 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion)
2018
Installation view: A new work by Teresa Margolles, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 6 May - 26 August 2018
Photographer Kristien Daem
TERESA MARGOLLES
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion)
2018
Installation view: A new work by Teresa Margolles, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 6 May - 26 August 2018
Photographer Kristien Daem
TERESA MARGOLLES
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion)
2018
Installation view: A new work by Teresa Margolles, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 6 May - 26 August 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion)
2018
Installation view: A new work by Teresa Margolles, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 6 May - 26 August 2018
Photographer Kristien Daem
TERESA MARGOLLES
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion)
2018
Installation view: A new work by Teresa Margolles, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 6 May - 26 August 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion)
2018
Installation view: A new work by Teresa Margolles, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 6 May - 26 August 2018
Photographer Kristien Daem
TERESA MARGOLLES
Muro Ciudad Juárez (Wall of Ciudad Juarez), 2010
Wall of concrete blocks from a public school in front of which a reckoning with 4 people involved in organized crime took place in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
176 x 1260 x 15 cm (69 1/4 x 496 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Collection Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque
Exhibition view: 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times, Venice, Italy, cur. Ralph Rugoff, 2019
Photo: Andrea Avezzù
TERESA MARGOLLES
Los Otros (The Others)
2018
Sound installation
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Sutura, daadgalerie, Berlin Germany, 2 June - 22 July 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Installation view: YA BASTA HIJOS DE PUTA. TERESA MARGOLLES, PAC Padiglione d'Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 28 March - 10 June 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Sutura, Fabric from Guadalajara
2011-18
Intervention on fabric
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Sutura, daadgalerie, Berlin Germany, 2 June - 22 July 2018
Photo: Jens Ziehe
TERESA MARGOLLES
Sutura, Fabric from Guadalajara
2011-18
Intervention on fabric
Performance view: Teresa Margolles: Sutura, daadgalerie, Berlin Germany, 2 June - 22 July 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
La Gran América (The Great America)
2017
1400 bricks created by hand with the mud extracted from Rio Grande/ Rio Bravo riverbed, natural border that divides Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) and El Paso (Texas, USA)
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Sutura, daadgalerie, Berlin Germany, 2 June - 22 July 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
La Gran América (The Great America)
2017
1400 bricks created by hand with the mud extracted from Rio Grande/ Rio Bravo riverbed, natural border that divides Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) and El Paso (Texas, USA)
Detail view: Teresa Margolles: Sutura, daadgalerie, Berlin Germany, 2 June - 22 July 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Muro Ciudad Juárez (Wall of Ciudad Juarez), 2010
Wall of concrete blocks from a public school in front of which a reckoning with 4 people involved in organized crime took place in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
176 x 1260 x 15 cm (69 1/4 x 496 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Collection Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque
Exhibition view: 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times, Venice, Italy, cur. Ralph Rugoff, 2019
Photo: Andrea Avezzù
TERESA MARGOLLES
Vaporización (Vaporization)
2001-18
Vaporized water from the morgue that was used to wash the bodies of murder victims after the autopsy, 1-2 fog machines
Installation view: YA BASTA HIJOS DE PUTA. TERESA MARGOLLES, PAC Padiglione d'Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 28 March 2018 - 10 June 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Mundos (Worlds)
2016
Installation, neon sign from a former bar in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; loudspeaker
87.5 x 522 x 20.5 cm
Installation view: YA BASTA HIJOS DE PUTA. TERESA MARGOLLES, PAC Padiglione d'Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 28 March - 10 June 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Karla, Hilario Reyes Gallegos
2016
Black & white photographic print
242 x 153 cm
Installation view: YA BASTA HIJOS DE PUTA. TERESA MARGOLLES, PAC Padiglione d'Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 28 March 2018 - 10 June 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pesquisas (Inquiries)
2016
30 color prints of photographs of street signs showing missing women that cover the walls of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico from the nineties until today
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in. each; 79 x 277.4 in. total
Teresa Margolles: Mundos, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada, 16 February - 14 May 2017
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pesquisas (Inquiries)
2016
30 color prints of photographs of street signs showing missing women that cover the walls of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico from the nineties until today
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in. each; 79 x 277.4 in. total
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Mundos, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada, 16 February - 14 May 2017
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Mesa y dos bancos
2013
Made from a mixture of cement and material taken from the ground, on which there lay the body
of a person murdered at the northern Mexican border
Table: 85 x 80 x 200 cm, benches: 50 x 45 x 140 cm each
Installation view: YA BASTA HIJOS DE PUTA. TERESA MARGOLLES, PAC Padiglione d'Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 28 March 2018 - 10 June 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
57 cuerpos (57 Bodies)
2010
Remnants of the threads used after autopsies to sew up bodies of victims of a violent death
Installation view: YA BASTA HIJOS DE PUTA. TERESA MARGOLLES, PAC Padiglione d'Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 28 March - 10 June 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
57 cuerpos (57 Bodies)
2010
Installation, remnants of the threads used after autopsies to sew up bodies of victims of a violent death.
Installation view: YA BASTA HIJOS DE PUTA. TERESA MARGOLLES, PAC Padiglione d'Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 28 March 2018 - 10 June 2018
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
36 cuerpos (36 Bodies)
2010
Remnants of the threads used after autopsies to sew up bodies of victims of a violent death
Length: 2125 cm
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Mundos, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada, 16 February - 14 May 2017
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
36 cuerpos (36 Bodies)
2010
Remnants of the threads used after autopsies to sew up bodies of victims of a violent death
Length: 2125 cm
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Mundos, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada, 16 February - 14 May 2017
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
La Promesa (The Promise)
2012-17
22 tons of rubble, performance
Remains of a demolished house from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Performance view: Teresa Margolles: Mundos, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada, 16 February - 14 May 2017
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
La Promesa (The Promise)
2012-17
22 tons of rubble, performance
Remains of a demolished house from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Mundos, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada, 16 February - 14 May 2017
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Wila Patjharu / Sobre la Sangre
2017
Embroidered canvas saturated with the blood of ten women murdered in La Paz, Bolivia
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Sobre la sangre, Tenuta Dello Scompiglio, Vorno, Italy, 25 March - 16 September 2017
Embroidery: Irene Mamani Lobo with Graciela Flores, Silverio Nina, Nancy Warawara Flores, Yasmani Quispe Mamani, Juan Daniel Quispe Mamani and Marcelo Quispe Ma
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Installation View: We Have a Common Thread, Colby Museum
September 13-December 11, 2016
Photos by Jason Paige Smith Photography. Courtesy Colby College Museum of Art.
TERESA MARGOLLES
Installation View: We Have a Common Thread, Colby Museum
September 13-December 11, 2016
Photos by Jason Paige Smith Photography. Courtesy Colby College Museum of Art.
TERESA MARGOLLES
La Sombra (The Shade)
2016
Concrete structure built with water used for marking the spots where bodies of murder victims had laid in Los Angeles, US
Installation view: Current:LA Water Public Art Biennial, Los Angeles, CA, 16 July - 14 August, 2016
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
La Sombra (The Shade)
2016
Concrete structure built with water used for marking the spots where bodies of murder victims had laid in Los Angeles, US
Installation view: Current:LA Water Public Art Biennial, Los Angeles, CA, 16 July - 14 August, 2016
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
La Sombra (The Shade)
2016
Concrete structure built with water used for marking the spots where bodies of murder victims had laid in Los Angeles, US
Installation view: Current:LA Water Public Art Biennial, Los Angeles, CA, 16 July - 14 August, 2016
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Karla, Hilario Reyes Gallegos
2016
Karla, Hilario Reyes Gallegos, transsexual sex worker beaten to death in December, 2015, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Her murder is still unpunished.
Color print on gloss paper
30 7/8 x 47 1/4 in.
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pista de Baile de la discoteca "Queens" (Dance floor from the "Queens" discoteque)
2016
Transgender sex worker standing on the dance floor of a demolished club in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Color print on cotton paper
49 1/4 x 72 7/8 in.
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pista de baile del club “Mona Lisa” (Dance floor from the “Mona Lisa“ nightclub)
2016
Transgender sex worker standing on the ruins of the dance floor of a demolished nightclub in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Color print on cotton paper
49 1/4 x 72 7/8 in.
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pista de Baile de la discoteca "Eduardo's" (Dance floor of the discotheque "Eduardo's")
2016
Transgender sex worker standing on the dance floor of a demolished club in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Color print on cotton paper
49 1/4 x 72 7/8 in.
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pista de Baile de la discoteca "La Madelon" (Dance floor of the discoteque "La Madelon")
2016
Transgender sex worker standing on the dance floor of a demolished club in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Color print on cotton paper
17 3/4 x 25 3/8 in.
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pista de Baile del club "Apache" (Dance floor of the club "Apache")
2016
Transgender sex worker standing on the dance floor of a demolished club in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Color print on cotton paper
49 1/4 x 72 7/8 in.
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Pista de Baile del “Virginias” (Dance floor from the discotheque “Virginias”)
2016
Transgender sex worker standing on the ruins of the dance floor of a demolished nightclub in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Color print on cotton paper
49 1/4 x 72 7/8 in.
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Dylegued (Entierro) [Dylegued (Burial)]
2013
Mola on fabric permeated with blood from the body of a woman assassinated in Panama City, Panama
Created with the participation of the Rosano family, of Kuna descent, in memory of Jadeth Rosano Lopez, a seventeen-year-old teenager who was assassinated, Panama City, Panama
39 3/8 x 90 1/2 in.
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: We Have a Common Thread, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, 2015
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
La búsqueda
2014
Sound installation
Intervention with sound frequency on glass panels transported from the historical center of Ciudad Juárez. The audio was recorded
from the train that divides the city, and transformed into low frequencies.
2 parts: 1 part 285 x 150.5 x 120 cm, 1 part: 285 x 103.5 x 120 cm
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: La búsqueda, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 24 May - 17 August 2014
Photo: FBM Studio
TERESA MARGOLLES
La búsqueda
2014
Sound installation
Intervention with sound frequency on glass panels transported from the historical center of Ciudad Juárez. The audio was recorded
from the train that divides the city, and transformed into low frequencies.
2 parts: 1 part 285 x 150.5 x 120 cm, 1 part: 285 x 103.5 x 120 cm
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: La búsqueda, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 24 May - 17 August 2014
Photo: FBM Studio
TERESA MARGOLLES
La búsqueda
2014
Sound installation
Intervention with sound frequency on glass panels transported from the historical center of Ciudad Juárez. The audio was recorded
from the train that divides the city, and transformed into low frequencies.
2 parts: 1 part 285 x 150.5 x 120 cm, 1 part: 285 x 103.5 x 120 cm
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: La búsqueda, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 24 May - 17 August 2014
Photo: FBM Studio
TERESA MARGOLLES
Mesa y dos bancos
2013
Made from a mixture of cement and material taken from the ground, on which there lay the body
of a person murdered at the northern Mexican border
Table: 85 x 80 x 200 cm, benches: 50 x 45 x 140 cm each
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: La búsqueda, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 24 May - 17 August 2014
Photo: FBM Studio
TERESA MARGOLLES
PM 2010
2012
313 covers of the Mexican daily tabloid from 2010, the most violent year in the entire history of drug trafficking in Mexico
Installation view: El Testigo, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 18 February - 25 May 2014
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
PM 2010
2012
313 covers of the Mexican daily tabloid from 2010, the most violent year in the entire history of drug trafficking in Mexico
Installation view: El Testigo, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 18 February - 25 May 2014
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Esta finca no será demolida
2011-2014
Installation View: El Testigo, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 18 February - 25 May 2014
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
¿Cómo salimos? (How do we leave?)
2010
Two-channel video installation (color, sound)
2.01 min., loop
Installation view: El Testigo, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 18 February - 25 May 2014
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
A través... (Through...)
2011
Glass panels coated in sweat from t-shirts worn over a period of time
Installation view: An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom, Visual Contemporary Art Carlow, Ireland, 6 October 2012 - 6 January 2013
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Sonidos de la Muerte (Sounds of Death)
2008
Sound installation with recordings taken in places where murdered women were found
Dimensions variable
Installation view: An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom, Visual Contemporary Art Carlow, Ireland, 6 October 2012 - 6 January 2013
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Aire (Air)
2003
Installation view: Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK, 12 June - 5 August 2012
Photo: Mark Blower
TERESA MARGOLLES
Bandera I (Flag I)
Fabric, blood, earth and other substances
117.3 x 74 in.
Photo: © Tate, London. 2018.
TERESA MARGOLLES
Ya basta hijos de puta
2010
Text carved in the wall
Message written on the body of a decapitated woman found in Tijuana
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Frontera, MUSEION Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, 28 May - 21 August 2011
Photo: Augustin Ochsenreiter
TERESA MARGOLLES
Detail View: Muro Baleado (Culiacán)
2009
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Frontera, MUSEION Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, 28 May - 21 August 2011
TERESA MARGOLLES
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: Frontera, MUSEION Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, 28 May - 21 August 2011
Photo: Augustin Ochsenreiter
TERESA MARGOLLES
Untitled
2011
Installation view: VIA/Stage 2, Resnick North Lawn, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), presented in collaboration with the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) 31 October, 2010 - 28 August, 2011
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Frontera
2010
Installation, 40 cloths soaked with soil and body fluids from different cities in north-western Mexico
Installation view: Frontera, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 4 December 2010 - 20 February 2011
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Muro Baleado (Culiacán)
2009
Wall from Culiacán front of which two police officers were shot.
Installation view: Frontera, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 4 December 2010 - 20 February 2011
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Herida
2010
An incision in the wall that is filled with the body fat of murdered people.
Installation view: Frontera, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 4 December 2010 - 20 February 2011
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Plancha
2010
Water used to wash corpses after autopsy, heated steel plates
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Corporización de la ausencia
2010
Two-channel video installation, sound
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Cómo Salimos?
2010
Two-channel video installation, sound
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Joyas
2007
These pieces of jewelry consist of glass shards that Teresa Margolles picked from the street after a gang gunfight. A jeweler from Culiacan incorporated the glass into jewelry designed to resemble the jewelry gang leaders wear. The precious jewels are replaced by shards of glass from crime scenes.
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Joyas
2007
These pieces of jewelry consist of glass shards that Teresa Margolles picked from the street after a gang gunfight. A jeweler from Culiacan incorporated the glass into jewelry designed to resemble the jewelry gang leaders wear. The precious jewels are replaced by shards of glass from crime scenes.
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Joyas
2007
These pieces of jewelry consist of glass shards that Teresa Margolles picked from the street after a gang gunfight. A jeweler from Culiacan incorporated the glass into jewelry designed to resemble the jewelry gang leaders wear. The precious jewels are replaced by shards of glass from crime scenes.
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Cubo
2010
One ton of scrap rebar from razed buildings on Calle Marsical, a street in the old section of Ciudad Juárez, at the border to El Paso, Texas.
Photo: Nils Klinger
TERESA MARGOLLES
Bandera (Flag)
2009
Fabric dyed with blood collected from executions on the north border of Mexico
Installation view: exterior of the Rota Ivancich Palace, What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, June - November 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Cleaning
2009
Cleaning of the exhibition floors with a mixture of water and blood from murdered people in Mexico. The action took place at least once a day during the extent of the Venice Biennial.
Performance view: What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, June - November 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Cleaning
2009
Cleaning of the exhibition floors with a mixture of water and blood from murdered people in Mexico. The action took place at least once a day during the extent of the Venice Biennial.
Performance view: What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, June - November 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Cleaning
2009
Cleaning of the exhibition floors with a mixture of water and blood from murdered people in Mexico. The action took place at least once a day during the extent of the Venice Biennial.
Performance view: What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, June - November 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Embassy
2009
Intervention to the United States pavilion at the Giardini of Venice with fabrics with blood of executed people in the north border of Mexico
Installation view: What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, June - November 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Dragged Cloth
2009
Public action in Lido Beach, Venice, done with fabric impregnated with blood collected from execution sites in Mexico
Performance view: What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, May 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Cards to cut up cocaine
2009
Multiple of ten thousand copies to be distributed during the opening days of the 53rd Venice Biennial
What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Cards to cut up cocaine
2009
Multiple of ten thousand copies to be distributed during the opening days of the 53rd Venice Biennial
What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, June 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Embroidery
2009
Joint activities in the city of Venice embroidering with gold threads the fabrics collected form execution sites in the north border of Mexico
What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, June - November 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Groundwork for Recovered Blood
2009
Series of actions by volunteers in the places where people have been executed in the north of Mexico
What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, June - November 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Groundwork for Recovered Blood
2009
Series of actions by volunteers in the places where people have been executed in the north of Mexico
What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 53rd Biennale de Venezia, Italy, June - November 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Recovered Blood
2009
Installation of mud-impregnated fabrics that were used to clean places where bodies of murdered persons were found in Mexico. The transfer of this material to Venice was performed through the remoisturizing of these fabrics.
Installation view: What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 2009
© Teresa Margolles
TERESA MARGOLLES
Narcomessages
2009
Fabric impregnated with blood gathered from the places where murders took place embroidered with gold threads. The fabrics were progressively embroidered during the Venice Biennial
Installation view: What Else Could We Talk About?, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, 53rd Bienale di Venezia, 2009
© Teresa Margolles
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