Tania Candiani

Tania Candiani’s practice is grounded in an expanded notion of translation: an experimental territory where visual, sonic, textual, and symbolic languages converge. Through installations, performances, and research-based, place-responsive projects, she engages local histories, technologies, languages, labor traditions, and systems of knowledge.

Her work is rooted in community-based and embodied practices understood as collective, affective, and ritual experiences. She approaches making and fabrication as forms of knowledge production, emphasizing transmission through craft, traditions, and oral histories. Through this process, she fosters collaborations between art, literature, music, architecture, science, and labor, making visible overlooked or marginalized epistemologies.

A central axis of her work lies in the friction between ancestral techniques and contemporary technologies: tools and practices that persist, are reconfigured, and create speculative bridges between past materialities and emerging modes of production. Her projects often operate as intertwined and sonified systems in which materiality, gesture, and language construct collective memory and propose alternative relationships with the more-than-human.

She represented Mexico at the 56th Venice Biennale and has participated in the Shanghai Biennale, Helsinki Biennial, Bienal Paiz, and Public Art Abu Dhabi. Her work is held in collections including Kadist, Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LACMA, Pérez Art Museum Miami, MUAC, and INBAL. She has received distinctions including Arts at CERN, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and the Platform Gala Dalí Fellowship.