Tania Candiani

Lágrimas en Chalco is based on the Chalco Manuscript (1734), the first secular score from the Baroque era that evokes Lake Chalco, one of the bodies of water that formed part of what was then the lake city of the Valley of Mexico. This score is written with the graphic notation method for psalteries, using black-and-white notes. Candiani translates it into a cartographic composition in which the circles simulate the notes for the psaltery and create hydraulic pathways. Like what the artist did with the piece Rebel River, the lines of the melody in Tears in Chalco resemble the paths of rivers.