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In the last ten years, Teresa Margolles has broken down the signs ofCiudad Jurez constant mutation process in an artistic project. Theartist has led documents and catalogued images, sounds, testimoniesand objects in order to prove a symptomatic reality not only limited toCiudad Jurez or Mexico, but that is also part of a global world. Duringher search she has asymmetrically- dialogued with the governmentpointing out the meeting, or lack of it, between the truth and the factsand how we place ourselves as witnesses, viewers and subjects withan agonistic look. Rather than trying to rebuild what happened usingthe remains of what is left after desertion, Margolles looks for a placeto create a counter-image that manages to question the authority andlegitimacy of official images.

La promesa (The Promise) is a piece that becomes an example ofthis process. This installation was set in 2012 for the rst time to beexhibited in the MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte ContemporneoMUAC), in Mexico D.F.La promesa is built using the real and fragmentedremains of a house in Ciudad Jurez, one of the many that were soldafter the wave of violence that unleashed in the region in the lastdecade and that emptied full neighborhoods. The house, demolished,broken, crushed and now transformed into a horizontal sculpture,will scatter around the exhibitions space thanks to volunteers thatwill move its fragments until they ll the room. This blunt and poeticreection on unmet expectations of personal and collective happinessmakes us face a community that remains to be built.

Teresa Margolles. El testigo 18 feb 25 may 2014 Guides toursWednesdays and Saturdays

18:30 h.

En torno a la prdida (Around Loss) [2009-2013] is a video piece thatis part of the La promesa documentation les. The video showsseveral testimonies gathered in the last three years from differentCiudad Jurez citizens coming from different social backgrounds.These citizens are the ones who talk about their experience and theirrelationships with their houses: what the house represents when itsbought, inhabited, and the implications of losing or abandoning it.These testimonies show the disappointment and frustration of a brokenpromise.

4/6 5/6 La promesa (The Promise), 2012

Comunidad de Madridwww.madrid.org

6 /6Esta nca no ser demolida (This PropertyWont Be Demolished), 2009 2013

Publication Catalogue with essays by:Mara Ins Rodrguez,Juan A. Gaitn,

scar Gardea Duarte yEyal Weizman.

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Otras actividades Adult LearningBut Is this Art? VIWednesday 19 feb 9 apr18:30 h.

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This exhibition, revolving aroundLa promesa, also proposes a place toreect on experience and the testimony resulting thereof. The piecesopen the space to the subjectivity of men and women who do not writethe official history but who are the ones who have to live through it.

El testigo (The witness) makes us face our responsibility as viewers, asthe ones who play a major role in writing history and increasingly so inthe collective quest for the truth.

This information has been drafted using the curatorial texts written by M Ins Rodrguez, JuanGaitan, scar Gardea and Eyal Weizman. Full texts by the authors can be found in El testigo (TheWitness) catalogue, published by CA2M on the occasion of this exhibition.

Other exhibitions Collection VIII Until 2 mar

Los Torreznos.8 feb 18 may

Otto Karvonen21 feb 20 apr

PER/FORM. How To DoThings With (Out) Words22 mar 21 sep

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