Against the aestheticization of the exhumed image

The importance of the visibility of horror and barbarism in Teresa Margolles’ work

Authors

  • Luisa Pastor Mirambell

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v20.11

Keywords:

Mexico, Violence, Corpse, Teresa Margolles, Contemporary Art

Abstract

In a violent and criminalized Mexico, the word exhumation brings back pain, rage and despair for the death, who share a mass grave in the vast Mexican territory, to memory. In this context, this work is a philosophical and conceptual reflection, about the political and critical capacity of the artist Teresa Margolles’ (Culiacan, Mexico, 1963) work, which faces a necropolitical and extremely violent drift that breaks through the mexican territory and goverment. Thus, from a collection of critical works and stripped off of the spectacular artifice of mass art, where the annihilation of the body and the violation of the corpse are part of the capital’s production logic, Margolles’ work refers back to the absence and the void that a departed body leaf.

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Published

2020-04-13

How to Cite

Pastor Mirambell, L. (2020). Against the aestheticization of the exhumed image : The importance of the visibility of horror and barbarism in Teresa Margolles’ work. Antropología Experimental, 20, 155-163. https://doi.org/10.17561/rae.v20.11