Growing up in Granada, Spain, in the 1990s, Marina Vargas became interested in classical iconography and the intersection of beauty, instinct, violence, and faith. Louise Bourgeois’s raw depictions of suffering, sometimes difficult to stomach, were a source of inspiration. “With my work I seek to unsettle,” Vargas said in a 2016 interview, “to create a state of convulsion, a subconscious emotional parenthesis.” In this exhibition, she uses sculptures and works on paper to reflect on how women have been silenced through history, starting with the 16th-century saint Mary Magdalene. This is Vargas’s first solo show in the museum. —Elena Clavarino

Travels to: the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, Mexico.