Jaguar Lens

“Jaguar Lens: Weaving Multispecies Landscapes across the Americas” invites spatial researchers and practitioners to move away from a city-centric view of the urban experience by adopting the lens of the jaguar, the largest feline and top terrestrial predator of the Americas. Combining a series of large-scale printed maps, interactive digital maps, and visual narratives, the exhibition will offer a view of the ways urbanization processes and socio-environmental struggles are entangled and in friction with the Jaguar Corridor — an unprecedented landscape integration project that envisions a continuous territory from northern Argentina to the southern United States to ensure the survival of the species. 

With a presentation of this cartography of interconnection, this exhibition and its opening talk on February 28 aim to foster a deeper understanding of the urban origins of today’s environmental and biodiversity crises, encouraging the spatial arts to participate in radically imagining possible landscapes of multispecies cohabitation. 

Featured Contributors: 

• Denilson Baniwa
• José Luis Cote
• Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz, Goldy Ann Levy, Natalia Arenas Chaves,  Johana Navajas, a.k.a Nefazta, More Than Human Life Project (MOTH), NYU Law School
• Fátima Vélez
• Zannah Matson
• Jacob Moginot
• Silvana Olivieri
• Esteban Payán Garrido

Exhibition Team: 

• Adelaida Ávila
• Brent Ryndak
• Sushmita Sridhar
• Maria Camila Salcedo

Join us for the exhibition and related events: 

FEBRUARY 28, 2025, 5 p.m.

OPENING TALK

Mebane Gallery (GOL 2.105)
On Friday, February 28, Assistant Professor of Practice Juana Salcedo will introduce her exhibition, "Jaguar Lens: Weaving Multispecies Landscapes Across the Americas." This exhibition combines a series of large-scale printed maps, interactive digital maps, and visual narratives to offer a view of the ways urbanization processes and socio-environmental struggles are entangled and in friction with the Jaguar Corridor — an unprecedented landscape integration project that envisions a continuous territory from northern Argentina to the southern United States to ensure the survival of the species. 

MARCH 26-28, 2025

URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS CONFERENCE

Wednesday, March 26: Goldsmith Hall and Mebane Gallery, UT School of Architecture
Thursday–Friday, March 27–28: Eastwoods Room (UNB 2.102), Texas Union Building

This three-day interdisciplinary conference aims to expand our understanding of the urban experience in Latin America by re-centering the lives of marginalized human and more-than-human actors, exploring cities in relation to the wider territories and ecologies they depend on, and fostering conversations about non-conventional narratives, media, and methods. It will revisit urban life in Latin America from 1400 to the present, bridging the gap between pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern cities—a long period some have termed the Anthropocene to describe the “colonial and industrial remakings of the earth [that] have created the dangerous environmental conditions that confront us today” (Feral Atlas).

Urban Entanglements brings together historians, architects, urbanists, literary scholars, art historians, sociologists, and environmental scholars, among others, to share innovative ways of conceiving and narrating cities and urban life, as well as discussing the challenges ahead to forge otherwise futures to live in our warming planet.

Free and open to the public; no registration required

"Jaguar Lens" is funded by the School of Architecture's Urban Design Program and by the Graham Foundation — one of fifty-six projects and only eleven exhibitions selected for the prestigious award out of nearly 600 global submissions. This is the second time the Foundation has recognized Salcedo’s work around the Jaguar Corridor; the first was a 2020 research grant to explore how the Jaguar Corridor can be interpreted as an infrastructure of care for the sustenance of human and nonhuman life.