First US Survey of Mexican Artist Teresa Margolles Coming This Fall
MoMA PS1 in New York City will present the first US survey of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles in fall 2026, Hyperallergic reports, bringing together works made over more than 30 years that address grief, murder, and violence, often along the US–Mexico border. The exhibition includes a 2026 evolution of Margolles’s ongoing “Air” (2003–) series, in which a gallery will be humidified with water imbued with degradable material from homicide sites, and it will feature documentation of “El agua de la ciudad, Dallas” (2016), a performance cleaning multiple murder sites in Dallas. In conjunction, the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan will debut Margolles’s new installation “Aproximación al lugar de los hechos (Approaching the Scene)” (2026) starting 17 September, using water that drips onto seven steel hotplates to create sizzling steam. The survey is co-organized by MoMA curator Ana Janevski and Cisneros Research Institute director Inés Katzenstein; Margolles previously represented Mexico at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 and was selected in 2024 for a Trafalgar Square plinth commission commemorating trans and nonbinary Mexicans and Britons.
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