‘Every face tells a story’: Teresa Margolles on putting 740 trans lives on the fourth plinth

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‘Every face tells a story’: Teresa Margolles on putting 740 trans lives on the fourth plinth

The artist has a studio attached to a morgue in Mexico City and uses fluids from corpses to make art. She talks about her latest project – placing the face casts of trans people in a giant cube in Trafalgar SquareTeresa Margolles is standing in a warehouse on the Thames estuary, surrounded by large boxes marked “Frágil”. They have come from Mexico, holding the face masks of 370 transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming people. Cast in whi…