MARGARETHE DREXEL

Margarethe Drexel's practice unfolds around the symbolic apparatuses of the past that still persist in the contemporary world, where they are reprocessed and newly presented. In particular, it is the symbols associated with the passage from life to death that vividly portray how religious beliefs, popular traditional knowledge and devices of control and fear are intertwined. Transmitted over time by both conquering hegemonic powers and subordinate communities, the symbolic discourse is based on a common and shared vision of life after death, a perspective that inevitably conditions and orients life time.