Aline Motta, (Other) Foundations, 2017-19, Courtesy of the Artist
Seba Calfuqueo, TRAY TRAY KO, 2022, Courtesy of the Artist
Carolina Caycedo, Apariciones/Apparitions, 2018, Courtesy of the Artist, Commonwealth and Council and Instituto de Visión
Regina José Galindo, Ríos de gente (Rivers of People), 2021, Courtesy of the artist and Proyectos Ultravioleta, City of Guatemala, Guatemala. Photography by Juan Esteban Calderón.
Past Exhibition
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This 40-minute screening programme explores the enduring effects of colonialism through contemporary moving image work from four artists living and working across Latin America: Carolina Caycedo (b.1978, UK), Seba Calfuqueo (b.1991, Chile), Aline Motta (b.1974, Brazil), Regina José Galindo (b. 1974, Guatemala). Addressing historical issues surrounding race, identity, and environmental causes, water emerges as a symbolic thread present across all the films connecting and foregrounding individuals, communities, and regions that have long been overlooked and marginalised, through diverse visual languages and poetic approaches.
All films are captioned and visitors are welcome to enter Assembly Room at any time during the screenings. On occasion, when there are other events in the space, films may be screened in the Zilkha Auditorium and Studio.
Latin American Film Programme: Estuario is part of the UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025–2026, celebrating artistic exchange and collaboration between the two countries.
Carolina Caycedo, Apariciones/Apparitions, 2016
Video, colour, sound
9:30 minutes
Courtesy of the artist, Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles) and Instituto de Visión (Bogotá/NYC)
Sebastiana Calfuqueo, TRAY TRAY KO, 2022
Video, colour, sound
6 minutes
Courtesy of the artist
Aline Motta, (Other) Foundations 2017-19
Video
15:48 minutes
Courtesy of the artist
Regina José Galindo, Ríos de Gente (Rivers of People), 2021
Video
6:41 minutes
Courtesy of the artist. Produced by Maiz de Vida for the Freedom for Water Festival. Thanks to the support of Oxfam, Government of Canada and Camino Verde.
Carolina Caycedo (b. 1978, London, UK) is a Colombian artist born in London and living in Los Angeles. Her murals, books, performances, films, photo-collages, hanging sculptures and installations are gateways into larger discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us. Caycedo’s solo museum exhibitions include: We Place Life at the Center at Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2024–2025) and the Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogota (2025); Spiral for Shared Dreams at MoMA New York (2023-2024); Land of Friends at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle (2022-2023), Artium Museum, Vitoria (2023-2024) and IVAM, Valencia (2024); The Blessings of the Mystery at Ballroom Marfa (2022); From the Bottom of the River at the MCA Chicago (2020- 2021); Cosmotarrayas at ICA Boston (2020); Wanaawna, Rio Hondo, and Other Spirits at the Orange County Museum of Art (2019-2020), and Care Report at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland (2019-2020). Caycedo’s work is included in the collections of major institutions including: Tate, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; KadistArt Foundation, San Francisco; Seoul Museum of Art; The Huntington Art Museum, San Marino; Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand; Banco de la República, Bogotá; and Migros Museum, Zurich.
Aline Motta (b. 1974, Niterói, RJ/Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Her videos, photographs, installations, and performances are based on speculative studies that mix archival research, field trips, and oral history reports. She has participated in international biennials and triennials like Sharjah, UAE (2023); São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Coimbra, Portugal (2024); Stellenbosch, South Africa (2025); and Trondheim, Norway (2025). Exhibited her works at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; New Museum, New York; Pompidou Metz; MASP, MALBA, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires; Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles; and Museu de Arte do Rio, MAM-Rio.
Sebastiana (Seba) Calfuqueo (b. 1991, Santiago, Chile) is a Mapuche Trans artist and curator in Espacio218 based in Santiago de Chile. Throughout her work, Calfuqueo uses her cultural heritage and lived experience as a starting point to propose a critical reflection on the social, cultural, and political dynamics of the Mapuche subject within contemporary Chilean society and Latin America. Calfuqueo has participated in the 60th Biennale of Venice (2024); the Whitney Biennial (2024); the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021); 22nd Bienal Paiz (2021); and 12th Bienal de Mercosur, (2020). She was awarded by Fundación FAVA in 2018, by Eyebeam’s Fractal Fellowships Program in 2020, by Fundación Ama Amoedo’a FAARA in 2023, and Premio Cuervo by Zona Maco in 2024. Her work is included in the collections of major institutions including Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul – MACRS, Porto Alegre; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago; and Museo de arte contemporáneo, Santiago.
Regina José Galindo (b. 1974, Guatemala) lives and works in Guatemala. Winner of the Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennale in the young artists category in 2005; she received the Prince Claus Award in Holland, the special award at the 29th Ljubljana Biennale and the Robert Rauschenberg Award. Her works are on display in numerous public collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; MEIAC- the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz; the Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento; the MMKA, Budapest; the Castello di Rivoli, Turin; the Daros Foundation, Zurich; the Blanton Museum, Austin; the UBS Art Collection, Basel; the Miami Art Museum; the Cisneros Fountanal Art Foundation, Miami; and the Madco-Museum of Contemporary Art, Costa Rica.
