Tania Candiani

A few days before the end of the Pulso de Tania Candiani exhibition, CCEMX joins the Mexico City Art Week and organizes, together with ZONA MACO, a guided tour with the Mexican artist, where you will be able to hear first-hand the entire process of creating the exhibition proposal.

The exhibition, curated by Jessica Berlanga Taylor, is made up of 180 teponaztli drums and drumsticks made for the performance, a huipil dyed with natural pigments, a selection of maps of the Mexico Basin of Memory of the works of the deep drainage system of the Federal District Volume IV, archive material of the artist, and pre-Hispanic objects from the Central Highlands on loan from the INAH/National Museum of Anthropology: natural snails found in the Basin of Mexico; a teponaztli drum in the shape of an animal; Mexica basalt sculpture in the shape of a snail, monumental battlement in the shape of a snail and the figure of a female deity.

Pulse questions us about how to bring these characteristics of teponaztli as a sounding board to the contemporary, expanding its meanings and abstracting its uses and understanding of gender in ancient cultures. Thus, the proposal was consolidated so that 195 women distributed in 12 groups each played a teponaztli, and 12 women leaders from each group, marking the guidelines of an ancestral rhythm with a Tarahumara drum, as warning and presence blows.

You can visit the show until Sunday February 13th.

— Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, CCEMX