2026 07 14 Fragments of Disability Fictions is acquired by the SFMoMA

Fragments of Disability Fictions has been acquired for the permanent collection of SFMOMA. Thanks to curators Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Joseph Becker, Daryl McCurdy, and Ann Marguerite Tartsinis. The project was originally developed for the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2025 titled SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, curated by Artist Director Florencia Rodriguez—and we are infinitely grateful to her and the whole CAB team for the support. It is particularly meaningful and humbling that the acquisition is part of a larger group of works, including pieces from Finnegan Shannon, Frida Escobedo, and Arakawa+Gins, amongst many others.

This project reimagines the past and future of our built and natural environments by centering the perspectives of disabled people in New York City. It depicts worlds in which disabled cultures manifest themselves, illustrating their flourishing, struggles, negotiations, and fights. It crafts alternative visions of our shared histories and contested futures, which have too often been shaped by ableism and eugenics. It adds new imaginations that challenge those of architects and designers who depict the elimination of our impairments, the normalization of differences, and the techno-utopian assimilation and pacification of all disabled people.

Developed by Ignacio G. Galán, David Gissen, Alessandro Orsini, and Nick Roseboro with the guidance of a group of disabled scholars, activists, and policy makers including Neta Alexander, Victor Calise, David Serlin, and Eman Rimawi-Doster.

Exhibition team: Sharona Cramer and Yotam Oron, Thomas Gomez Ospina, Lauren Jian, Norman Keyes, Yuna Li, Lajja Mehta, Natalia Molina Delgado, Angie Dominica Mendoza, Nur Nuri, Aistyara Charmita Shaning, and Sherry Aine Chuang Te.

Voice: Sophie Schulman.

ASL interpreting: All Hands in Motion / Diana Abayeva (DI on screen) and Maria Cardoza (HI).

Photographs: Omer Mohamed Gorashi and Architensions