(Hidalgo, MX – 1985)
In her practice, Tania Ximena attends to approach the landscape genre from different flanks and disciplines: mountain climbing, volcanology, scientific and historical research, and personal and spiritual introspection, so as to replace a notion of landscape as something that is merely observed with the notion of territory as a changing mesh of social and natural factors. This doubtlessly implies taking on the difficulties of any translation and asking the question: How does one move from experience to image?