Teresa Margolles
Through February 2027
- On View
- Exhibition
MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art present the first US large-scale museum exhibition of Teresa Margolles (Mexican, b. 1963), featuring several room-sized installations and a new commission. Trained as a forensic pathologist and a photographer, Margolles has created work that examines the implications of transnational violence, with particular attention to the US-Mexico border. Across mediums, her works trace disappearances, femicides, political displacements, and societal neglect through methodical research, site-responsive interventions, and a radical rethinking of the memorial. The exhibition’s centerpiece is La promesa (2012), a monumental barrier made from 14 tons of rubble that the artist disassembled from a home abandoned by a family in Ciudad Juárez. Margolles’s artworks bring pressing systemic issues into public view, materializing the ways violence permeates everyday life with feelings of loss.
Aproximación al lugar de los hechos (Approaching the Scene), a concurrent presentation at The Museum of Modern Art, is now on view.