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Teresa Margolles at Kunsthalle Krems

En la Herida

Krems, Austria

November 24, 2019 - February 9, 2020

TERESA MARGOLLES, En la Herida

TERESA MARGOLLES

En la Herida

2019

Action carried out by Mariella, a trans sex worker from Austria. The work consists of a fifty-meter long horizontal slit, carved into a museum wall with a knife and filled with fat.

Photo: Rafael Burillo

Teresa Margolles En la Herida 2019

TERESA MARGOLLES

En la Herida

2019

Action carried out by Mariella, a trans sex worker from Austria. The work consists of a fifty-meter long horizontal slit, carved into a museum wall with a knife and filled with fat.

Photo: Rafael Burillo

TERESA MARGOLLES En la Herida

TERESA MARGOLLES
En la Herida
2019
Action carried out by Mariella, a trans sex worker from Austria. The work consists of a fifty-meter long horizontal slit, carved into a museum wall with a knife and filled with fat.
Photo: Christian Redtenbacker

Installation view: Teresa Margolles: En la Herida, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, November 24, 2019 - February 9, 2020
Photo: Christian Redtenbacker

TERESA MARGOLLES En la Herida

TERESA MARGOLLES
En la Herida
2019
Action carried out by Mariella, a trans sex worker from Austria. The work consists of a fifty-meter long horizontal slit, carved into a museum wall with a knife and filled with fat.
Photo: Christian Redtenbacker

Installation view: Teresa Margolles: En la Herida, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, November 24, 2019 - February 9, 2020
Photo: Christian Redtenbacker

TERESA MARGOLLES Pistas de Baile, 2016

TERESA MARGOLLES
Pistas de Baile, 2016
16 pigmented inkjet prints
Each print: Unframed: 47 1/4 x 70 7/8 in (120 x 180 cm)
Framed: 49 1/4 x 72 7/8 in (125 x 185 cm)
Edition of 6 + 1 AP
Installation view: Teresa Margolles: En la Herida, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, November 24, 2019 - February 9, 2020
Photo: Christian Redtenbacker

TERESA MARGOLLES La Gran América, 2017

TERESA MARGOLLES
La Gran América, 2017
1000 cobblestones cooked and burnished with the traditional techniques from Paquimé, Chihuaha, made by the artisan Israel Gómez. The mud was extracted from Rio Grande/ Rio Bravo riverbed, a natural border that divides Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) and El Paso (Texas, USA)
Each brick: 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 1 5/8 in (9 x 9 x 4 cm)


Installation view: Teresa Margolles: En la Herida, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, November 24, 2019 - February 9, 2020
Photo: Christian Redtenbacker

Press Release

Congratulations to Teresa Margolles on the opening of En la Herida, on view from November 24, 2019 through February 23, 2020 at Kunsthalle Krems in Krems, Austria. 

For over twenty-five years, Teresa Margolles (b. 1963, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico) has investigated the social and aesthetic dimensions of conflict, creating sculptural installations, photographs, films, and performances imbued with material traces of trauma and loss. Working closely with communities precluded from access to systems of social care, Margolles explores the relationship between violence and marginality, especially in light of gender.

En la Herida will feature a new performance carried out by Mariella, a trans sex worker from Vienna, Austria, involving the incision of a fifty-meter long horizontal slit carved into the museum wall with a knife and filled with fat. The work will remain on view for the duration of the exhibition, alongside important bodies of work developed over the past decade in collaboration with trans sex workers in Ciudad Júarez, Mexico.

En la Herida is presented at Kunsthalle Krems in collaboration with AIR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Lower Austria and will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Hirmer. The exhibition is curated by Florian Steininger.

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