타니아 칸디아니 Tañía Candiani

he work of Tania Candiani * (Mexico City, 1974) has been developed in various media and practices that maintain interest in the complex intersection between phonetic, graphic, linguistic, symbolic, and technological languages. He has worked with different association narratives from rearranging, remixing, and playing with correspondences between technology, knowledge, and thought, using the idea of ​​organization and reorganization as discourse, and critical thinking and empirical research as material for production. The translation between diverse systems of representation is key in the materialization of her body of work. She has created interdisciplinary working groups in various fields, consolidating intersections between art, design, literature, music, architecture, and science, with an emphasis on early technologies and their history in the production of knowledge. Her projects are related to crafts, labor, tradition, sound, synesthesia, rhythm, and translation. She has a special interest in projects developed for a specific site because of the precise historical-social links that they trigger. Candiani uses historical records and archives as materials, just as if it were a fabric, which leads her to intuitive forms of materialization.

She has been a fellow of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico since 2012; in 2011 she received the Guggenheim Grant for the Arts and in 2018 the Research Grant for Artists awarded by the Smithsonian Institution. Represented Mexico at the 56th Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited in museums, institutions, and independent spaces around the world and is part of important public and private collections. Among her books are Five variations of phonic circumstances and a pause (2014); Inhabits Intervened (2015); Possessing Nature. Pavilion of Mexico. Venice Biennale (2015) and Chromatic (2019).

• Member of the National System of Art Creators for the National Fund for Culture and the Arts.