ExhibitionMay 3, 2024
Tania Candiani: Desminar. Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria
"Desminar" (Dismine), by Mexican artist Tania Candiani, curated by Gabriela Rangel, will be on view through July 28, 2024. The exhibition at Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria, takes as its point of reference the floor of the exhibition hall, made by Doris Salcedo with the melted arms of the FARC-EP, after signing the Peace Agreement, and with the participation of women victims of sexual violence during the armed conflict in Colombia. Each panel is intended to represent the stories and wounds of the victims that materialize in cracks that claim for truth, memory, justice and reparation.
Candiani interprets the floor as a place loaded with values, which she transforms into a system of sounds and images, as the different areas of the room emit sound impulses and light points. The viewers, accompanied by facilitators, assume the role of mine hunters and manipulate a “demining” device as they walk through Room 1. Therefore, the sounds and images that are “collected” allude to the stories and emotions that are part of the footprint of this space of art and memory.
This “information” gathered with the mine finder is simultaneously projected in the main room of FRAGMENTOS. In this room, an immersive experience is generated by placing a video installation with 4-channel sound and an enlarged projection. Likewise, the images and sounds of the live tour in Room 1 are contrasted with another floor, that of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City, where the massacre of the Tlatelolco student movement took place on October 2, 1968. This is why the sound and visual recordings of the two places blend together, resisting oblivion and creating a multimedia cartography of two histories that have characterized the wars in Latin America.
In addition, there is a Book Box where the spectator can find texts about the artwork, Candiani's storyboard, prints of FRAGMENTOS' floor and of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, and a turntable that will reproduce the sound recordings of the floor.
Candiani interprets the floor as a place loaded with values, which she transforms into a system of sounds and images, as the different areas of the room emit sound impulses and light points. The viewers, accompanied by facilitators, assume the role of mine hunters and manipulate a “demining” device as they walk through Room 1. Therefore, the sounds and images that are “collected” allude to the stories and emotions that are part of the footprint of this space of art and memory.
This “information” gathered with the mine finder is simultaneously projected in the main room of FRAGMENTOS. In this room, an immersive experience is generated by placing a video installation with 4-channel sound and an enlarged projection. Likewise, the images and sounds of the live tour in Room 1 are contrasted with another floor, that of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City, where the massacre of the Tlatelolco student movement took place on October 2, 1968. This is why the sound and visual recordings of the two places blend together, resisting oblivion and creating a multimedia cartography of two histories that have characterized the wars in Latin America.
In addition, there is a Book Box where the spectator can find texts about the artwork, Candiani's storyboard, prints of FRAGMENTOS' floor and of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, and a turntable that will reproduce the sound recordings of the floor.
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