PISTA DE BAILE

Pistas de Baile (Dance Floors, 2016) by Teresa Margolles

Pistas de Baile (Dance Floors, 2016) by Teresa Margolles is a stark, essential study on memory, violence, and space.

Set in Ciudad Juárez, the photograph series focuses on trans sex workers posing on the last remaining fragments of demolished nightclub dance floors. Margolles captures the loss of these physical safe spaces and highlights the vulnerability of a community excluded from social and institutional support.

Pistas de Baile (Dance Floors, 2016) by Teresa Margolles

Trained in forensic medicine, Margolles brings an intense, tactile precision to her practice—frequently incorporating materials that bear traces of human remains or contact with the deceased. In Pistas de Baile, her restrained approach shifts the focus from abstract statistics to living, human realities.

Pistas de Baile (Dance Floors, 2016) by Teresa Margolles

A masterclass in how photography and conceptual art can engage with political reality and give visibility to what is often hidden from public view.