8 CENTURIES OF MEXICAN COLORS - TANIA CANDIANA AT THE JUMEX MUSEUM
Part of the “Normal Exceptions” solo shows programme, La Restauradora (The Restorer) tells the story of Mexico City over 800 years from the geographic perspective of a location at the city’s heart.
This place was the scene and witness of changing landscapes and constructions that were erected and collapsed between moments of apogee and conflict. Through colors, descriptions and sounds, Tania Candiani narrates the development of Mexico, from the founding of Tenochtitlan in the 14th century to the present day.
The artist imagines scenarios seen from the portico of house number 12 Seminario in the Historic Center, which she describes in detail in the text that appears in the video, while the environmental sounds that accompany each description make the scenes almost perceptible. In the image we see the preparation of each color that is needed to paint that picture described with words.
In the museum’s gallery, the mixing trays and palettes used in the making of the video are exhibited, demonstrating the changes of materials and shapes of tools over time.
The 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.
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. She represented Mexico at the 56th Venice Biennale and her work has been exhibited in museums, institutions, and independent spaces around the world. It is also part of important public and private collections.
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