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Teresa Margolles

Vaporization

In Vaporization (Vaporización, 2002), Teresa Margolles fills the gallery with a foggy mist created from the disinfected water used to wash corpses of drug cartel murder victims in the Mexico City morgue. Her performance visualizes the physical memory of a last washing, while also suggesting angelic disappearance or bodies fading away. External Link:  A World Apart: The provocative …

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Teresa Margolles

Teresa Margolles is a Mexican photographer, videographer and performance artist. Margolles was born in Culiacán in 1963. Margolles’ independent art practice has continued to explore themes of death and violence in society, specifically using forensic material and human remains.
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