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First US Survey of Mexican Artist Teresa Margolles Coming This Fall

Hyperallergic·Rhea Nayyar·28 days ago
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News MoMA PS1 in NYC will bring together several works at the intersection of grief and violence, often with a focus on the US-Mexico border. Teresa Maroglles, "Mil Veces un Instante" ("A Thousand Times in an Instant") (2024), Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square in London (photo Krisztian Elek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) MoMA PS1 in New York City will present the first United States survey of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles this fall. Formally trained as a forensic pathologist, Margolles has spent over 30 years creating sculptures, performances, and installation work with organic and bodily materials sourced from homicide victims, morgues, and crime scenes. The Queens-based institution will bring together select works across the artist's various confrontations of murder and violence along the US-Mexico border, as well as the treatment, disposal, and remembrance of the human body after its life has been taken.…

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