This fall, MoMA PS1 will present a major exhibition of Vaginal Davis, spanning five decades of her practice as a performer, visual artist, author, filmmaker, musician, educator, self-proclaimed “Blacktress,” and countercultural icon. The presentation spotlights Ms. Davis’s role as an underground trailblazer in culture and queer politics—as well as her uncompromising glamour.

Four Dilations presents four artistic positions that counter the dominant ways in which time is kept today. The exhibition’s title references temporal dilation, a physical phenomenon that describes how time can pass at different rates for observers with distinct frames of reference.

In their first project in the US, artist-run platform LA ESCUELA___ will initiate a collective learning project in Homeroom this fall charting pedagogies from across Latin America.

The US premiere of Gabrielle Goliath’s (South African, b. 1983) acclaimed, ongoing video series Personal Accounts (2024–25) responds to the impacts of patriarchal violence in a range of global contexts from Johannesburg to Kyiv. Intimately documenting survivor testimonials, in collaboration with the contributors, the artist has withheld narrative speech within the videos, instead portraying the moments in between participants’ recounts: breaths, sighs, cries, humming, and even laughter. Goliath’s sonic cycles trouble false binaries of the ‘voiced’ and ‘voiceless,’ revealing the enormity of what can be conveyed in moments of perceived silence.