Taryn Simon has spent her career exploring the machinery of power and its hidden casualties—wrongfully convicted prisoners, secret government sites, and bloodlines traced across continents. For her new body of work, nearly a decade in the making, Simon turned to a mystery much closer to home: her own father. He had worked for the U.S. government, traveling to Russia, Iran, Israel, China, Afghanistan, and Korea, before leaving government service to manufacture and sell arcade games. Simon never learned the full story of what he had done, and after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she realized she never would. A work of 42 interconnected photographs, texts, videos, and sculptures, “Father Country I Do Love You” pieces together the elusive life of an unnamed federal agent. The Guggenheim is presenting the installation in its rotunda, the first time a photography-based artist has had a monographic exhibition in that space. The show is also the largest debut of new work in the museum’s history. —Elena Clavarino