She subverts official versions of reality, understands other means of inhabite the city, celebrates anniversaries of women artists missing from art books, she prefers ephemeral interventions in street than museographic embalming of experience…, we could say that Diana Larrea always has felt attracted by the other side of the moon. This is the title of an ongoing group exhibition curated by Tomás Ruiz-Rivas, and refers to the alternative history of recent artistic practices that has […]
Al observar la obra de Teresa Margolles en su conjunto notamos que subyace en ella una lógica procesual propia, que al encadenarse de proyecto en proyecto cobra más fuerza, y que va a contracorriente de la lógica sistémica del capitalismo en su vertiente más gore (como acertó en llamarlo la también mexicana Sayak Valencia). Así, frente a la banalización del crimen reivindica el duelo para cada cuerpo, al anonimato y reificación de las víctimas opone […]
Looking at Teresa Margolles work as a whole, we observe that it underlies in it an inherent processual logic, which, interlinking from project to project becomes stronger, and it goes against the systemic logic of capitalism in its gore side (as the also Mexican Sayak Valencia rightly called it). Thus, against the trivialisation of crime she claims grieving for each body, facing the anonymity and reification of the victims she opposes their individuation, in front […]
