Teresa Margolles: En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene)

The first US large-scale exhibition of Teresa Margolles, featuring room-sized installations and a new commission examining transnational violence and the US-Mexico border. About In the fall of 2026, MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art will present the first US large-scale 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 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. A concurrent presentation at The Museum of Modern Art is on view beginning September 25, 2026, titled Aproximación al lugar de los hechos (Approaching the Scene). Read more Toggle Photography Installation Mixed media