The artist grieves for these individuals, her work is a production of morning. Her exhibition entitled ‘Muerte sin fin’ meaning endless death, a title borrowed from a poem by Mexican writer Octavio Paz. In multiple installations Margolles breaks down the invisible wall we have constructed against the idea of death.
one particular installation is En la aire ; Bubbles is a motif that has often been used as a memento mori, a reminder of the transitory nature of life. Their delicate forms one minute there the next gone. Tessa Margolles uses water from Mexico City morgue, water that has been used to wash the corpses before an autopsy. Despite having been disinfected the stigma of death lingers. Transforming the light and playful into something dark and heavy. The realisation of death turns the beautiful into the unspeakable as happy, shiny bubbles burst cells of death on the skin.