TAM Cinema is a moving image series screened at Tacoma Art Museum. Films are conceptually tied to current TAM exhibitions and features guest curators.
En la Mira: Contemporary Latin American Video
July – December, 2026
Curated by Jairo Hoyos Galvis
On view daily in the Haub Orientation Space
En la Mira: Contemporary Latin American Video is a six-part film series, presenting 18 works from contemporary artists on view daily in the Haub Orientation Space
En la mira is a video art exhibition presented as part of the TAM Cinema series that will be on view from July through December 2026. This exhibition aims to offer a side view of a selection of current video art practices by Latin American artists.
En la mira seeks to interrupt normative representations of Latin American culture and resist the flattening effects of geopolitical, cultural, and aesthetic homogenization. Rather than proposing a unified narrative, En la mira stages moments of exposure by presenting monthly constellations of distinct yet resonant artistic perspectives.
This exhibition positions that, as adopted by the artists on view, these perspectives unsettle the conventional boundaries that divide, for instance, past and present, land and nation, nature and technology. En la mira invites viewers to reflect on how visual culture can reframe memory, disarticulate borders, and imagine new modes of being, seeing, and belonging.
As presented in this exhibition, artists from Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil, born between 1987 and 1997, reimagine the medium of video as a site of inquiry, where fragmented timelines and contested spaces interrogate nation-centered identities, while speculating on future scenarios that have not been rendered.
Each month centers on a distinct topic:
- July: Digital Times
- August: Lodging the Past
- September: Undoing Practices
- October: Territorial Crossings
- November: Tracing Reinvention
- December: Not So Natural
This series of constellations encourages us to face head on the images before us. In other words, we invite you to search for that which remains hidden or forgotten yet remains, quite literally, in sight. In Spanish, this translates to en la mira.
—Jairo Hoyos Galvis
July – Digital Times
- Ileana Moreno (México, 1989)
- “Kowatl (Sun’s Best Friend)”
Ileana Moreno Artist bio
SPAN: Nacida en CDMX, MEX en 1989. Licenciada en Artes Visuales en la Facultad de Arte y Diseño, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, MEX (2013-2017) y Formación en Historia del Arte UNAM (2010-2012). Ha participado en residencias artísticas en EE.UU. y México. Su trabajo ha sido expuesto en México, EE.UU., Japón y Alemania. Forma parte de colecciones privadas en México, y ha recibido múltiples premios y reconocimientos a lo largo de su trayectoria. Ha sido becaria de Jóvenes Creadores 2022-2023.
Actualmente estudia la Maestría en Artes Visuales en el campo disciplinar de Pintura en el Programa de posgrado en Artes y Diseño de la UNAM. Vive y trabaja en la Ciudad de México, MEX. Su trabajo se compone de una colección de propuestas visuales que exploran relaciones entre objetos simbólicos-mitológicos y analogías que toman referentes visuales pertenecientes al imaginario pop de diferentes décadas y culturas. Sus obras son alegorías que se resignifican a través de yuxtaposiciones de valores formales y plásticos, motivos religiosos o espirituales que resignifican la historia que los constituye.
ENG: Born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1989, she holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (2013–2017) and completed coursework in Art History at the same institution (2010–2012). She has participated in artistic residencies in the United States and Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, Japan, and Germany, and is included in private collections in Mexico. Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Jóvenes Creadores Fellowship (2022–2023).
She is pursuing an M.A. in Visual Arts, specializing in Painting, within UNAM’s Graduate Program in Arts and Design. She lives and works in Mexico City. Her artistic practice consists of visual works that explore the relationships between symbolic and mythological objects, as well as analogies drawn from references from world pop culture. Her works are allegories whose meanings are transformed through the juxtaposition of both formal and material qualities and religious and spiritual motifs, reimagining the histories that formed them.
- Ivo Loyola (México, 1997)
- “Es todo un honor camarada”
Ivo Loyola Artist bio
SPAN: Ivo Loyola estudió en la Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda”. Ha expuesto en Ciudad de México, España y EE.UU. Su trabajo se centra en la videoinstalación e integra escultura, imaginando qué sucede en los mundos cuando dejan de ser habitados y cómo lo que permanece manifiesta una existencia propia. Vive y trabaja en la Ciudad de México.
ENG: Ivo Loyola studied at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking “La Esmeralda.” He has exhibited in Mexico, Spain, and the U.S. His work centers on video installation and incorporates sculpture, imagining what happens in worlds once they cease to be inhabited and how what remains manifests an existence of its own. He lives and works in Mexico City.
- Israel Urmeer (México, 1993)
- “ ¡POPOP! Un extraño cristal”
Israel Urmeer Artist Bio
SPAN: Urmeer es un artista multidisciplinario, cuya obra incorpora el humor, lo tierno y lo siniestro en narrativas no lineales atravesadas por una percepción geológica afectada por la influencia omnipresente de la cultura de masas, la cual moldea nuestra forma de entender el mundo, el entorno y la experiencia cotidiana.
Su trabajo se ha presentado en importantes instituciones y espacios como el Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, la XX Bienal Rufino Tamayo, el Museo de Arte Moderno (Ciudad de México), la XIV Bienal do Mercosul, el Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, el Palais de Tokyo, Kurimanzutto, SAPS y CAPC Bordeaux, entre otros.
Estudió la Licenciatura en Artes Visuales en la Facultad de Artes y Diseño de la UNAM (2012–2016). Posteriormente cursó el Programa Educativo SOMA (2018–2020) y la Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2022). Fue integrante de la colectividad artística Biquini Wax EPS (2012–2025) y ha colaborado con artistas como Ileana Moreno y Vanebon.
ENG: Urmeer is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work incorporates humor, cuteness, and the uncanny into non-linear narratives shaped by a geological sensibility influenced by the pervasive presence of mass culture, which informs the ways we understand the world, our surroundings, and everyday experience.
His work has been presented at major institutions and venues, including the Museo Rufino Tamayo, the 20th Rufino Tamayo Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City), the 14th Mercosur Biennial, the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, the Palais de Tokyo, Kurimanzutto (Mexico City), SAPS, and CAPC Bordeaux, among others.
He earned a B.A. in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM (2012–2016). He later attended the SOMA Educational Program (2018–2020) and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (2022). He was a member of the artist collective Biquini Wax EPS (2012–2025) and has collaborated with artists such as Ileana Moreno and Vanebon.
Ileana Moreno
(Mexico, 1989)
Kowatl y el mejor amigo del Sol, 2021
HD Video
4:33 minutes
Music by Mischa Ovtchinnikov
Courtesy of the artist
Ivo Loyola
(México, 1997)
Es todo un honor camarada, 2026
Animated video
5:31 minutes
Courtesy of the artist
Israel Urmeer
(México, 1993)
Un extraño cristal
Animated video
4:04 minutes
Courtesy of the artist
August – Lodging the Past
- Julieta Gil (México, 1987)
- Memory Palace
- Chantal Peñalosa Fong (México, 1987)
- “To Xin Xin with Love”
- Rubén Ojeda Guzmán (México, 1991)
- “Mad Dreams”
September- Undoing Practices
- Fernando Gress Muñoz (México, 1997)
- “Kema Nacional”
- Sbethlanna González (México, 1992)
- “El Reclamo de los pájaros”
- Nestor Jímenez (México, 1988)
- “La ‘e’”
October – Territorial Crossings
- Eblin Grueso (Colombia, 1994)
- “Resistiendo”
- Ana Hernandez (México, 1991)
- “Ladi Beñe”
- Julieth Morales (Colombia, 1992)
- “Resistencia”
November – Tracing Reinvention
- Andres Quintero (Colombia, 1995)
- “Viaje a la Luna con olor a Oveja”
- Isadora Soares (Brazil, 1995)
- “Birds video”
December – Not so Natural
- Wendy Cabrera Rubio (México 1993)
- “Resurrecting the Past: Animality and Chemical Ethics”
- Ivana Vivanco (Perú,1989)
- “La Yegua de Santiago”
- Lucas Lugarinho (Brasil, 1992)
- “Ghost Rococó”
TAM Cinema is a free event, but donations are welcome.