The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles is planning an extraordinary event featuring women artists living on site: Three exhibitions worth seeing will run in parallel from 10 September 2022 to 19 February 2023, the best known of which is Judith Baca (b. 1946), to whom the show Judith F. Baca: World Wall is dedicated. In 1987, under the title World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear, she created four portable murals measuring approximately three by nine metres that depict a peaceful future. The paintings travelled around the world, and artists from Finland, Israel and Palestine, Russia, Mexico and Canada created five more murals on the same theme between 1990 and 2014. MOCA is now showing all nine works together for the first time in Baca's home city of Los Angeles.
Running parallel to Baca is Tala Madani: Biscuits with paintings and animations by Tala Madani, born in Tehran in 1981. She explores people's deep-seated cultural fears as well as their desires and longings. This is Madani's first exhibition in North America. The first museum presentation ever takes place for the artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley (*1986). In Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody, her videos, consisting of narrative, documentary and experimental elements, address social injustices while functioning as a kind of archive of African American film history. In 2021, Bradley was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary Feature.
