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Toque duro: capitalismo Gore y las intervenciones suaves de Teresa Margolles

No. 6 (2020-01-01)
  • Julia Skelly
https://doi.org/10.25025/hart06.2020.03

Resumen

Este texto aborda las obras textiles de Teresa Margolles a través del lente del capitalismo gore, un concepto teorizado en el importante libro de Sayak Valencia de 2018. El capitalismo gore, según Valencia, es la extensión inevitable de la globalización que conduce al uso de la violencia extrema para ganar poder y estatus económico. En 2009, Margolles fue elegida para representar a México en la Bienal de Venecia, y su instalación incluyó una serie de grandes paños que se habían utilizado para limpiar escenas de narcoviolencia en el norte de México. En 2012 y 2015, Margolles dio textiles ensangrentados a grupos de bordadores que bordaban directamente sobre las telas. Los textiles manchados de Margolles operan como índices de la muerte violenta en una variedad de contextos globales, y dan espacio a “intervenciones suaves” que el texto interpreta como actos políticos de resistencia contra el capitalismo gore, contra los crímenes violentos relacionados con el narco-empoderamiento y contra el feminicidio. La comprensión modernista de los textiles como algo excesivo también se cuestiona, y se argumenta que lo que revelan las obras de arte textil de Margolles no es el exceso innato de los textiles, sino más bien el exceso de la violencia.

Palabras clave: Violencia, tacto, textiles, piel, feminicidio, México, exceso, sangre

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