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

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- The article discusses the installation of a new sculpture on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. The sculpture, titled "Invisible Lives," aims to honor the lives of transgender individuals who have been victims of violence.
- The work features the names of 100 transgender people who have been murdered, engraved on a glass surface that reflects the faces of passersby, symbolically including them in the memorial.
- The installation is part of a broader effort to bring attention to the ongoing struggles and discrimination faced by the transgender community, particularly in Mexico, where the artist is based and where the rate of transphobic violence is high.

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