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Teresa Margolles

TERESA MARGOLLES

En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene) MoMA PS1 24 September 2026–28 February 2027 New York
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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.

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Installation Views

Exhibition view: Teresa Margolles, En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene), MoMA PS1 (9/24/2026–28 February 2027). Courtesy MoMA PS1.
Exhibition view: Teresa Margolles, En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene), MoMA PS1 (9/24/2026–28 February 2027). Courtesy MoMA PS1.
Exhibition view: Teresa Margolles, En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene), MoMA PS1 (9/24/2026–28 February 2027). Courtesy MoMA PS1.
Exhibition view: Teresa Margolles, En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene), MoMA PS1 (9/24/2026–28 February 2027). Courtesy MoMA PS1.
Exhibition view: Teresa Margolles, En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene), MoMA PS1 (9/24/2026–28 February 2027). Courtesy MoMA PS1.
About the Artist

Teresa Margolles’ works examines the social causes and consequences of violence. For her, the morgue accurately reflects society, particularly that of her home country where deaths caused by drug-related crimes, poverty, political crisis and the government’s inept response has devastated communities. She has developed a unique, restrained language in order to speak for her silenced subjects, the victims discounted as ‘collateral damage’ of the conflict. Margolles holds a degree in Forensic Medicine and Communication Science from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.

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About the Gallery

MoMA PS1 is a pioneering nonprofit contemporary art institution and exhibition space located in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Renowned for its boundary-breaking exhibitions and commitment to experimental art, MoMA PS1 is deeply rooted in an artist-centered mission, consistently championing bold and innovative practices from around the world.

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New York 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
MoMA PS1 contemporary art institution in New York United States
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, New York, United States
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http://momaps1.org/

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12–6 pm, Thursday through Monday

Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
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