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.

"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.