Teresa Margolles

127 Cuerpos, 2006
Text by: Hans-Georg Lohe, Patrizia Dander, Heriberto Yépez

Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Publisher: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

Hardcover, 16 x 2 x 23 cm, 215 pages, English

 

The Mexican artist Teresa Margolles presents delicate remnants of threads that were used to sew up bodies after their autopsies. Each of 127 threads represents a particular person who died a violent death. The work explores the role of memory, the past and social, political and economic issues.