Image: Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Museo Tamayo in Mexico City is preparing to open 'Con todo y mi tristeza', a new project by Fátima Rodrigo that draws on the visual language of Latin American television entertainment. According to the museum’s exhibition text, the work takes as its starting point the set designs of musical programs and televised contests, assembling an installation from elements and textures reworked from TV stages. The exhibition is scheduled to begin on August 29, 2026, at Museo Tamayo.
The museum describes the project as the product of extensive research in public and private television archives. From that material, Rodrigo has built a scenographic environment that reflects the aesthetics of 20th-century television and its influence on visual culture. The exhibition frames those television sets not simply as entertainment backdrops but as visual systems that shaped a shared Latin American imagery across decades.
In the museum’s account, the rise of television, film and music from the 1960s onward helped establish a common visual identity in the region, beyond musical hits alone. The source text notes that many of those sets borrowed openly from modern European avant-garde currents such as Constructivism, Op art and Minimalism, and that these references circulated outside the bounds of institutional contemporary art through mass media. 'Con todo y mi tristeza' revisits that history by focusing on how popular spectacle translated modernist forms for broad audiences.
The exhibition also points to the promises and ideological cues embedded in those designs. Museo Tamayo says Rodrigo’s installation approaches the era’s scenographic imagination as a non-innocent aesthetic, one that carried hopes of artistic success and international visibility while relying on bright surfaces, fiction and refrain. The work is made with everyday materials and widely circulated objects, reinforcing the way television design could turn ambitious visual references into public-facing spectacle.
According to the museum, 'Con todo y mi tristeza' forms part of a program of site-specific interventions in the museum’s central courtyard and is open to the public free of charge. The installation is intended to be activated by visitors through shifts in perspective and sound-based stimuli, placing audience participation at the center of the experience. The exhibition text says this approach invites the public to engage with the work in a setting that encourages exchange and shared cultural construction.
The project is curated by Ixel Rion. The museum’s newsletter listing places 'Con todo y mi tristeza' among its August 2026 exhibitions and notes a run through September 27, 2026. Museo Tamayo’s broader calendar also lists a performance by Proof on August 29, 2026 in connection with the exhibition, but the main exhibition itself is identified on the museum site as opening that day at Museo Tamayo.
