Flag I

Flag I

Political Protest

This is a piece of fabric that was used to clean blood off the street at the site of violent deaths related to drug cartels in Mexico, that has been hung on a flagpole in order to symbolize what flags, and nations, are truly standing for in this day and age. The fabric was hung outside of the Mexican pavilion as a memorial for the citizens lost as they and the drug wars were ignored by the Mexican government.

Teresa Margolles

2009

Fabric, blood, earth, and other substances

This piece comments on the 2009 drug wars in Mexico near the US border where the government refused to get involved which cost too many civilian lives.