BIOGRAPHY Tania Candiani (Mexico City, 1974)

BIOGRAPHY
Tania Candiani
(Mexico City, 1974)
Tania Candiani is a multimedia artist whose practice explores the intersections among language systems —
phonic, graphic, linguistic, symbolic, technological.
Her work demonstrates nostalgia for the obsolete, and the intention to make discursive contents explicit
within symbols, artifacts and textual materials. Thus, through the exploration of elements such as: sound,
words, diagrams or machines, the artist recreates unique translations that elaborate on the possibilities of
meaning and expression.
In recent years, Tania Candiani has conducted interdisciplinary collaborations to find poetic intersections
among art, design, architecture and science. Consequently, her work has developed into large scale
projects that explore the possibilities of technology (Órgano and Plataforma Sonora, 2011); technological
research concerning time (La Magdalena, 2014); sound (Serendipia, 2013); and narrative mechanisms
(Lecturas de Corrido, 2010); underlining our relationship with technology and its role in the creation of
knowledge.
Selected exhibitions include: La gravedad de los asuntos, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2015); La
Magdalena y otros estudios de campo, Casa del Lago, Mexico City (2013) and Museo de la Ciudad de
Querétaro, Mexico (2014); Five Variations of Phonic Circumstances and a Pause, Laboratorio Arte Alameda,
Mexico City (2012) and Kiblix, Slovenia (2014); The Future of Fashion is Now, Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen, Netherlands (2014); Serendipia, Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain
(2013); Prix Ars Electronica Cyber Arts Exhibition, OÖ Kulturquartier, Austria (2013); Sonorama: Del Hi-Fi al
Mp3, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City (2013); XI Bienal de Cuenca, Museo de Arte Moderno,
Ecuador (2011); Textile 09, Textile Biennial, Lithuania (2009) and XI Cairo Biennial, Palace of the Arts, Egypt
(2008).
Candiani is a Guggenheim fellow (2011) and was granted the Award of Distinction, Prix Ars Electronica
Hybrid Arts, Austria (2013)
www.taniacandiani.com