TANIA CANDIANI'S OFFERING AT MAMM

It brings together a series of works revolving around sound, artisanal processes and rivers, which speak of different latitudes, but also and above all, of Medellin. Some of her works lead through paths that merge the Earth with its human and non-human inhabitants, bringing them closer, and also questioning the meaning that each one gives to his or her brief passage through this planet. Loosely structured around Preludio cuántico, a two-channel octophonic video that connects mystical, scientific and aesthetic visions of the universe, Ofrenda poses -from sound and matter- a series of reflections on what is primordial, both audible and palpable.

Sound is at the core of the artistic practice of Tania Candiani (Mexico City, 1974), who in the last fifteen years has investigated it as a material, as a medium and tool for measuring and understanding the corporeal world. Her work, which is organically multidisciplinary, focuses her interest on the processes of translation between languages and techniques, which is why she uses sound fields to understand the conception of the world in different cultures, to establish a channel of communication with other species and even to question the processes of industrialization and a supposed progress whose profound consequences we are experiencing today. The artist has come to think of sound as an instrument to measure the passage of time, the time of craftsmanship, of traditions and their material manifestations.