Covid interview to Tania Ximena

LATANGENTE is a new platform that makes available the distribution and sale of work by Mexican artists via Instagram auction and takeover. As part of her participation, Tania Ximena answered interview questions using images in place of words, the results of which were originally published at LATANGENTE on June 1st, 2020.

Joining in this effort, Onda MX asked Tania Ximena how she would define her work and how COVID-19 has impacted her artistic practice. In the following, we share with you both her response and the visual interview.

In my practice as a visual artist I’ve developed a method for approaching the landscape genre from different flanks and disciplines: mountaineering, volcanology, scientific and historical research as well as personal and spiritual introspection, all in order to displace the notion of landscape, understood as something that’s observed, in favor of the territory, understood as a changing lattice of social and natural factors. This undoubtedly embodies the difficulties of any translation and of asking the following question: how does one go from an experience to an image? The way that this question is answered can go from drawing to video, to sculpture, painting, installation, action, all the way to cinema.

I usually work in the field; therefore, the research I’m currently doing has been put on hold, though that doesn’t mean I don’t continue each of my projects from my desk. However, rather than see myself affected at this moment, since art is not considered a “basic necessity,” I should say that all people dedicated to culture will see our practice diminish in the very near future. That makes me rethink and offer new scenarios for continuing to carry out that which I’ve made my way of approaching life: artistic practice.