Loom was a collaboration between Iranian American poet Nilufar Karimi and Mexican artist Eliseo Ortiz. As a collective, Loom embodies both its noun form—an instrument used to weave together disparate threads—and its verb form—that which slowly comes into view and implies futurity. Work created by Loom sheds light on structural inequalities, while also looking optimistically towards community action to revise systems of power.

Together, Karimi and Ortiz created games, interactive media, poetry, films and performances, all of which were born from a common interest in investigating the language and symbolism nations use to enforce violence on their populations. Loom's work aims to raise community awareness of the many modes of state violence that exist by creatively unpacking the tools the state uses to impose this violence.