User:Barbarella2001/Tania candiani

Biography: Tania Candiani (Mexico City, 1974) is a Tijuana and Mexico City-based visual artist. Her work deals mainly with issues of gender and identity, using textile, photography and painting as primary media. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art. San Diego (2002), Kunsthaus Miami (2005), Plataforma Puebla 2006, the University of El Paso, Texas (2009), and the XI Cairo Biennial (2009).

Recent Work: Her work has recently focused heavily on the strategy of site-specific interventions in different contexts around the world, such as a graffiti painting on a hotel façade in Mexico City, (2008), an outdoor installation near the Giza pyramids involving hundreds of tiny alarm clocks for the IX Cairo Biennial, or the 28-day long in situ production of ‘La Constancia Dormida’ (The sleeping Constance) for the contemporary art festival Plataforma Puebla 2006. For this intervention, the artist prepared 28 garments that she wore each day while producing a text embroidered unto a bolt of cloth with a sewing machine; the text and title of the work referred to the popular story of ‘Sleeping Beauty’. The venue for this intervention was the recently refurbished 19th-century textile factory ‘La Constancia Mexicana’.

References: Plataforma Puebla 2006, Exhibition Catalogue, Turner Books, Madrid, 2007

External Links: http://www.cairobiennale.gov.eg/Art_Det/76.htm