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Offering

Localization :

Modern Art Museum of Medellín, Medellín, Colombia.

Curated by

Emiliano Valdés

DETALLES DEL PROYECTO

Tania Candiani: Offering is the Mexican artist’s first large-scale show in Colombia. The exhibition features a series of works that incorporate sound, artisanal processes, and rivers, and which speak of different latitudes, but above all, they speak of Medellín. The exhibition features the artist’s landmark audiovisual works and new installations that explore the relationship between Earth and its inhabitants, both human and non-human, while prompting viewers to question the meaning of their brief passage through this planet. Loosely structured around Preludio cuántico (Quantum Prelude), a two-channel octophonic video that connects mystical, scientific, and aesthetic visions of the universe, Offering is a reflection on the primordial, both audible and palpable.

In the beginning there was sound. From the big bang to the mantra om, sound is at the origin of the worldview of different cultures and traditions. Before the existence of stars and planets, of black holes and white dwarfs, of atoms and even rays of light, the Universe reverberated in a surprising vibration: sound. Today, sound is gaining importance not only in artistic practices as a medium stripped of the symbolic charges of the visual, but also in science and spirituality. It helps us understand the early stages of the cosmos and sheds light on processes that are invisible to the human eye. It also helps to harmonize the body and mind with high vibrations. Sonority helps us understand the invisible and, thus, the unknown.

Sound is also at the core of Tania Candiani’s practice (Mexico City, 1974) whom, over the last fifteen years, has explored it as a material, medium, and tool for measuring and understanding the physical world. Her work, which is organically multidisciplinary, focuses on the translation of languages and techniques. She uses sound fields to understand the conception of the world in different cultures, establish communication with other species, and question the consequences of industrialization and supposed progress that we are experiencing today. The artist has gone so far as to consider sound as a tool to measure the passage of time, craftsmanship, traditions, as well as their material expressions.

 

Prologue (Seven Bells), 2024.
Cuando el río suena, 2024.
To Become Mountains, 2024.
Reverencia, 2019.
Quantum Prelude, 2022.
For the animals, 2020.
Coatí, Lobo, Jabalí, Gatomontes, Zorro, Coyote. Del proyecto For the Animals, 2020.
Tidal Choreography, 2023.