In each chapter, in conversation between the most remarkable artists from Latin-America and Latinxs in the US, and our MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga, we place the focus on a series or specific artwork which requires a close inspection and deliberate process of contemplation, and exploration; delving into the ideas surrounding the creation of the works, their sources of research and inspiration, in an effort to immerse ourselves in the world of the artists.
This session will be pre-recorded.
Jerónimo Reyes-Retana (b. Mexico City) is a researcher, artist, and community organizer from Mexico City whose work examines the poetics of infrastructure and the politics of noise in Latin American contact zones—sites shaped by the environmental, geopolitical, and social anxieties arising from the pursuit of progress. His work has been exhibited at Museo Tamayo, MX; Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, MX; Texas Biennial, US; Co-Lab Projects, US; Big Medium, US; Mario Kreuzberg, CH; Distant Gallery, NL; and Liste, CH; among others. His writing and research has been published by The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA); xCoAx: Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X; Toda la Teoría del Universo; Storefront for Art and Architecture; and Sociology Lens: Carceral Edgelands. Reyes-Retana has received the FONCA-CONACYT Fellowship through the Mexican National Council for Arts, Culture, and Technology, as well as the Public and Educational Program Grant from Museo Jumex in Mexico City for his community-based initiative Public Art Program: For a Shared (Outer)Space in Playa Bagdad, Tamaulipas, MX. His film installation Void in Resonance received the CIFO-Ars Electronica Award 2025. His work is included in the Cisneros-Fontanals collection. Reyes-Retana holds an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from the University of Texas at Austin, and he is currently a doctoral candidate in Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado, Boulder.