Tela bordada – Maya Guatemala

Teresa Margolles, Tela bordada (Embroidered fabric), 2012, traditional Maya embroidery on fabric (images of different birds, candles, flowers, symbols of Mayan calendar, stars); made by indigenous activist women from Guatemala (Lucy Andrea López, Silvia Menchú, Bonifacia Cocom Tambriz, María Josefina Tuy Churunel, Marcelina Cumes, Rosamelia Cocolajay, Yury Cocolajay, Alba Cocolajay and Cristina López). Previously, in the morgue, the fabric absorbed the fluids of a woman's body that was murdered in Guatemala City. Unique, 200 x 200 cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in.).

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