Teresa Margolles
| Teresa Margolles | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Teresa Margolles 1963 Culiacán |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Known for |
Photography Videography Performance art Conceptual art |
| Awards | Prince Claus Award (2012) |
Teresa Margolles is a Mexican conceptual artist, photographer, videographer and performance artist. She exhibits worldwide.
Life
Margolles was born in Culiacán in 1963. As an artist she researches the social causes and consequences of death.[1]
In 1990, Margolles founded an artists' collective titled SEMEFO, which is an anagram for the Mexican coroner's office.[2] Other core members of SEMEFO included Arturo Angulo and Carlos Lopez, yet the group had a loose membership.[2] Through performance and installation-based work, SEMEFO commented on social violence and death in Mexico.
Margolles' independent art practice has continued to explore themes of death and violence in society, specifically using forensic material and human remains.[3] In 2012 she was honored with a Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands.[1]
Solo exhibitions
- 2004: Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2005: Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
- 2008: Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
- 2009: Venice Biennale (Mexican pavilion)
- 2010: Fridericianum, Kassel, Margolles, Teresa. Frontera
Literature
- Kittelmann, Udo & Klaus Görner (2004) Teresa Margolles. Muerte sin fin, Ostfildern-Ruit, ISBN 978-3-7757-1473-0 (Spanish)
- Margolles, Teresa (2011) Margolles, Teresa. Frontera, Walther König, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-86560-976-2 (Spanish)
- Downey, Anthony (2009) "127 Cuerpos: Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Commemoration", Lund Humphries, London, ISBN 978-1-84822-016-4
- Scott Bray, R (2007) "En piel ajena: The work of Teresa Margolles" Law Text Cutlure 11(1), pgs. 13-50, URL: http://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol11/iss1/2/
- Downey, Anthony (2012) "In the Event of Death: Teresa Margolles and the Life of the Corpse", in Artes Mundi 5, pp. 62–66
- Heartney, Eleanor; Posner; Princenthal; Scott (2013) The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millenium, published by Prestel Verlag, pp. 206 – 213, ISBN 978-3-7913-4759-2
References
Das Kunstmagazin (September 2006) Reste des Lebens,
- 1 2 Prince Claus Fund (June 2012) Report from the 2012 Prince Claus Awards Committee
- 1 2 Scott Bray, R (2007). "En piel ajena: The work of Teresa Margolles". Law Text Culture. 11 (1): 17. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ↑ Scott Bray, R (2007). "En piel ajena: The work of Teresa Margolles". Law Text Culture. 11 (1): 26–27. Retrieved 1 February 2014.