“I didn’t see a major difference between a poem, a sculpture, a film, or a dance,” the American artist Joan Jonas once said. She began her career in New York in the 1960s, when Abstract Expressionism was dominant. Not one to follow the crowd, Jonas preferred sculpture over mark-making and gestural brushstrokes, mixing mediated images with performance and props. In 1970, Jonas and Richard Serra took a trip to Japan, where she studied Noh and Kabuki theater, traditions that would inform her own video performances, which reduced the cast to one actor—herself. Now 87, Jonas continues to explore the intricacies of perception through various media. In recent work, she has focused on interspecies kinship in the context of climate change. “Despite my interest in history,” Jonas has said, “my work always takes place in the present.” This exhibition, her largest retrospective in the United States, features work past and present. Everything feels contemporary. —Elena Clavarino