Teresa Margolles: La carne muerta nunca se abriga

Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, Chile

In this project, Margolles investigates for the first time the local context and the effect of an economic model, considered one of the most unequal in the world, on the bodies of its inhabitants. Through photographs, videos, installations, ceramic and textile pieces, the exhibition invites us to reflect on the consequences of capitalism in relation to issues such as homelessness, mining extraction or the arrival of migrant populations in the country.

 

The name of the exhibition comes from a phrase the artist heard from Raúl Adriazola, a poet and pirquinero with whom she talked in Inca de Oro, a former mining center near the Diego de Almagro commune, in the Atacama region, where she developed part of her work. "This dead flesh that never gets warm refers to that cold that does not go away, to regret, to fatigue. To the body seen as flesh within this machinery of inequalities", expresses the artist.

 

Curator: Andrea Pacheco González