TANIA CANDIANI INSCRIBES AN ECOLOGY OF THE INVISIBLE AT IVAM

Tania Candiani (Mexico City, Mexico, 1974) presents her project Radix at IVAM in Valencia: an immersive installation that proposes a speculative exploration of the subsoil as a living, complex organism with the capacity to generate and contain memory. Through an ecological narrative, the work constructs an alternative universe in which elements habitually hidden beneath the surface are revealed through the use of light and illumination.

The Mexican artist’s proposal configures a hybrid ecosystem in which entities that verge on the blurring of natural categories coexist. Living plants, blown-glass sculptures, and suspended organisms are brought into dialogue with audiovisual projections and an enveloping sound composition that saturates the space. The articulation of these components seeks to generate an organic synergy that emphasizes the interdependence of a larger system, dissolving the boundaries between life and death, nature and artifice.

The spatial arrangement of the installation transforms the museum’s architectural configuration, drawing inspiration from the radial form of certain vegetal structures documented in the Botanical Garden of Valencia. The resulting environment turns the gallery into an organic body—an imagined plant suspended between botanical memory and scientific fiction—inviting reflection on ecological systems and the possibility of alternative relational futures.

Tania Candiani. Radix can be seen until 20 September 2026 at IVAM (Centro Julio González), Guillem de Castro 118, Valencia (Spain).