Teresa Margolles' 'Ya basta hijos de puta' at PAC Milano

Teresa Margolles' exhibition 'Ya basta hijos de puta' at PAC in Milan confronts violence, femicide, and border deaths. The title, an insult scrawled on a decapitated woman's body in Tijuana, sets the tone. Margolles, a forensic doctor who founded SEMEFO in 1990, uses bodily traces—autopsy water, corpse fluids, death certificates. Works include 'Mesa y dos bancos' (benches mixed with autopsy water), 'Gran America' (stones and mud from the Rio Grande), 'Pistas de baile' (photos of trans sex workers in Ciudad Juárez), and 'Vaporizacion' (vaporized sheets from violent deaths). A section memorializes Karla/Hilario, a trans woman killed after being photographed. The exhibition runs during Milano Art Week 2018.