Viewing Room. Tania Candiani

Vermelho presents “The Beginning, the parenthesis and the end, the curtain”, a 2018 film by Tania Candiani. Candiani was focusing on the theatrical language, its mechanisms and codes of communication as strategies to reveal and hide a specific construction of reality, when she began to see the theater curtains as landscapes. The artist saw in […]

Camouflage. Frieze Projects 2020

Inspired by the images of the photographer Dorothea Lange, Making camouflage nets for the War Department (1942), Tania Candiani recreated the forced labor of Japanese Americans imprisoned in the concentration camps in Manzanar and the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, during the Second World War. Overseen by army engineers, groups of women wove huge […]