The concept of necropolitics, launched by Achille Mbembe in 2003, has had an increasing influence within various disciplines but not within arts, aesthetics and cultural studies. This is the point of departure for my article, which simply wants to address the following questions: What does a contem...

<p>Starting from the famous and enigmatic quotation of the Aristotle’s <em>Poetics</em>, who argues that the human has a natural desire and pleasure to see corpses if mediated by art, is intended to show the relationship between the attraction for the horror and some contemporary art practices surro...

This text approaches Teresa Margolles’s textile works through the lens of gore capitalism, a concept theorized in Sayak Valencia’s important 2018 book. Gore capitalism, according to Valencia, is the inevitable extension of globalization leading to the use of extreme violence in order to gain economi...

Teresa Margolles (b. 1963) is Mexico's foremost proponent of corpse art. Her work meditates upon her obsessions with the dead body and the processes that occur after death, and shows death as a direct result of violence. Employing a range of techniques of representation, Margolles implicates the spe...

[ES] The present Tesis Doctoral is a study on the ways in which contemporary violence in Mexico has impacted the field of visual arts, with a particular emphasis on how to understand and represent the human body. Framed over three decades (1988-2018), this work is a contextual research that builds o...

In this essay various characteristics of social contemporary sensibility are analyzed. Three images depicting the recent violence in Mexico are assumed as symptoms. These images are examples of the manner in which violence and cruelty are presented by the media in the world today. They are a photogr...

There is an image of catastrophe in every day Mexico, a contemporary catastrophe that alludes to the visible and the (in)visible. This paper shows a complex network of connections between these possibilities: visibility and (in)visibility, memory and absence, through the works of two Mexican artists...