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La promesa : Teresa Margolles

Title
La promesa : Teresa Margolles / [textos: Teresa Margolles, María Inés Rodríguez, Rossana Reguillo].
Author
Margolles, Teresa, 1963-
Publication
México, D.F. : MUAC, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Reguillo Cruz, Rossana.
  • Rodríguez P., María Inés.
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo.
Description
117 pages : illustrations (some color); 19 cm
Summary
The installation "The Promise" by Teresa Margolles (b. Mexico 1963) is inspired in broken promises. The whole creative project consisted in its first phase, in working with one of the abandoned houses of social interest constructed by the government of Ciudad Jurez in the middle of the desert. The empty house was bought, dismantled and the crushed parts transported in 11 days to Mexico City (opposite to the illegal immigration flows), where the material was recomposed to create an installation that reflects on the loss of personal patrimony as a result of violence, economic crisis and unemployment. The present catalogue is a graphic chronicle of the deconstruction process and transportation of the house, and the later installation operation for the exhibition in MUCA. "The Promise is the result of the years that I have been working in Ciudad Juárez, of the experience of my involvement with the city, not only in an emotional level, but also in a visual level. Of having seen how certain zones began a process of growth and later, a process of destruction." (Our translation) --P. 10.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition held July 2012 - Jan., 2013 at MUCA, Mexico City.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 109)
Contents
Presentaciones / Graciela de la Torre y Mario Bronfman -- Apuntes sobre La promesa / Conversación entre Teresa Margolles y María Inés Rodríguez -- Escombros: La promesa fallida / Rossana Reguilli.
ISBN
  • 9786070240164
  • 6070240162
LCCN
2013398666
OCLC
  • ocn836102204
  • 836102204
  • SCSB-1683739
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library