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Performing at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), ‘If you unfolded us’ celebrates Black queer love and kinship that persist despite violent climates

From a retrospective of Josh Kline in New York to the ‘Made in LA’ biennial, here are the best stateside exhibitions of the year

From Tetsuya Ishida’s disaffected oil paintings at Gagosian, New York, to Ato Ribeiro’s wooden weavings at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta

At Regen Projects, Los Angeles, the artist’s multi-media works explore the similarities between entertainment and state oppression

David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards’s biennial documents the power of the individual imagination within imperfect nation-state borders

A recent exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, conjured an experience of being controlled within a carceral capitalist state