Trepanaciones

The work consists of sounds of a trepanation recorded during an autopsy. The minimalist oeuvre of Mexican artist Margolles revolves around what is perhaps the last great taboo topic of our time: death. She is not interested in folklore and ritual but in the palpable reality of the corpse. ‘What does a corpse have to go through?’ wonders Margolles, who is also a forensic medical assistant and a scholar in the field of communications. Employing a minimalist aesthetic, she transforms extinguished life, rendering it perceptible through artistic intervention, thereby rescuing ‘her’ decedents from oblivion.