Teresa Margolles – Periferia dell’agonia

Teresa Margolles – Periferia dell’agonia

Palaexpo 2023
Spanish and Italian to Italian and english translations of the exhibition catalogue by Scriptum

Teresa Margolles (b. 1963 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a visual artist who explores the causes and the social consequences of violence in works of art focusing on the issues of violence, gender and alienation. Her work critiques the incomprehensibility of contemporary society and the social and economic order that considers violent death a normal occurrence. Teresa Margolles is one of the artists who has most consistently addressed the issue of the brutality that dominates the war between drug lords and the forces of order in the Republic of Mexico, producing works from which there emerges a firm condemnation of violence and of what it does to the victims’ families, to the community and to the urban space.

The Periferia dell’agonia [Periphery of Agony] presented at the Mattatoio di Roma is configured through an environmental installation occupying the whole of Pavilion 9B and through a series of actions that gradually unfold without any regular rhythm or pace for the entire duration of the exhibition, permeating both the interior of the exhibition space and, more importantly, the urban space of the city.

FEBRUARY 24TH – JUNE 19TH 2022