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Traces Of Identity: Portraiture In The Work Of Teresa Margolles, Alexandra M. Perez
Traces Of Identity: Portraiture In The Work Of Teresa Margolles, Alexandra M. Perez
Art History Theses and Dissertations
Teresa Margolles, born in Culiacán, Mexico, is a socially engaged conceptual artist whose work examines the causes and consequences of death from the 1990s to the present in her home country. Margolles’s work has been largely discussed in the context of death and violence, and this thesis expands upon this literature by including the concepts of identity and portraiture. By examining how Margolles’s installations, sculptures, and photography use material remains to display identity and memorialize victims, this thesis argues that Margolles not only creates memorials, but also portraits of the fallen victims.
Using the frameworks of portraiture, the index, and …