Teresa Margolles: Periferia dell’agonia
Teresa Margolles becomes a witness to pain and violence with her exhibition titled Periferia dell'Agonia at the Mattatoio in Rome.
The work of Teresa Margolles criticizes the incomprehensibility of contemporary society and a social and economic order that makes violent deaths normal. Among the artists who have most dealt with the theme of violence, gender, and alienation, Teresa Margolles uses a personal language to become a narrator-witness of violence perpetrated, processed through a complex memorial of lost lives and places where the trauma continues to resonate. From this point of view, the Mexican artist transfers into the sphere of art the space of death, metaphor par excellence of the limit.
The project “Periferia dell’agonia” presented at the Mattatoio in Rome is configured through an environmental installation that occupies the entire pavilion 9B and a series of actions that are articulated gradually and without a regular cadence throughout the duration of the exhibition, permeating both the interior of the exhibition space and marking a synaesthetic path in which the public is invited to walk peripherally around the agony of the other.
