TERESA MARGOLLES

BORN Culiacán, Mexico, 1963
LIVES&WORKS Mexico City and Madrid, Spain

Mexican visual artist and photographer Teresa Margolles represented her country at the Venice Art Biennale in 2009. With a minimalist style with powerful scenic and conceptual impact, her installations explore uncomfortable themes of death, social injustice, gender hatred, marginality and corruption, generating a constant tension between horror and beauty.

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