Teresa Margolles at CA2M, Madrid
Teresa Margolles (Culiacan, Mexico, 1963) focuses on the Mexican social and political context, and how these determine ourselves.
Margolles explores through her work the social injustice and the repression generated by the drug trade in her country. Her exhibition El testigo (The Witness), at the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, CA2M will open on February 17th and will remain on view until May 25, 2014.
Curated by María Inés Rodríguez, the show includes Margolles´s last year project, La Promesa –The promise-, which in a poetically but strong way reflects about those personal and collective unmet happiness expectations. The perpetrated violence in Ciudad Juarez during the last decade has led to entire inhabited neighborhoods, neighborhoods built with detached houses promising a happy life in a booming community. However, reality itself twisted those dreams. La Promesa presents the ruins of a house in the shape of a rebuilt wall by the artist, as an intense presence, that along the exhibition will blur away until total disappearance.
Being one of the most outstanding Mexican artists of her generation, Teresa Margolles´s work has been displayed in solo exhibition in venues such as Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt/Main, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Frac de Lorraine or at Kunstmuseum in Berna. In 2009 Margolles represented Mexico at the Biennal of Venice with her installation “¿De qué otra cosa podemos hablar?” (What Else Can we Talk?) She has also taken part in many International Biennials: Göteborg, 2003; Kwangju, 2004; Baltic Triennal, Vilinius, 2005; Liverpool, 2006, as well as in collective exhibitions as in ECO – Arte Contemporáneo Mexicano, MNCARS, 2005; Indelible Images “trafficking between Life and Death”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. An exhibition catalogue with texts by María Inés Rodriguez, Eyal Weizman, Óscar Gardea and Ferran Barenblit will be published.
