Viento Negro, installation view, mor charpentier Paris, 2021

Margolles material and visual explorations deal with the concept of violence as a trace, where the viewer's imagination takes a role in the whole experience.

Teresa Margolles’ works examines the social causes and consequences of violence. For her, the morgue accurately reflects society, particularly that of her home country where deaths caused by drug-related crimes, poverty, political crisis and the government’s inept response has devastated communities. She has developed a unique, restrained language in order to speak for her silenced subjects, the victims discounted as “collateral damage” of the conflict.

Group of El Capital te culea, photograph series

Teresa Margolles’ work is an accumulation of violent acts, exposed through a complex memorial to lives lost and to sites where trauma keeps resonating, and bare material traces of the violence are still perpetrated. In her artworks she studies these abandoned spaces which carry a series of messages, both tacit and explicit, that present devastated landscapes and sites filled with political and social tension. The remnants in her work question the concept of contemporary ruin, creating compositions that honor the people involved in these episodes. Her statement against oblivion is presented in her pursuit of documenting these people and spaces that have suffered several contextual repression, honoring them in the works that testify their stories.