Sin ningún pudor
Martha Pacheco
Shameless
Whether in painting, photography, or drawing, Martha Pacheco’s work has continuously depicted corpses, especially those left unidentified in Mexican morgues. In 1993, she began taking photographs in Mexico’s Servicio Médico Forense (Semefo), today called the Instituto de Ciencias Forenses (Incifo). During this period, she also received many images from Teresa Margolles, founder of the Semefo artist collective.
Her virtuosic realism, approaches, and framing all confront the viewer with the rawness and violence of a death in which the individual is reduced to a forgotten object. Her work, testimony to the state of incessant violence in Mexico, harnesses morbid fascination as a strategy to show how every life lost means, too, the deprivation of intimacy.
MARTHA PACHECO (1957)
Sin ningún pudor, 1996
Shameless
Charcoal on paper
Acquisition, 1999
