Today we’d like to introduce you to Lujan Candria.
Lujan, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón. And although I graduated in sculpture and worked for a long time using assemblage, painting and glass as a media, research and experimentation has always been a constant in me.
It was during this process of exploration that video, sound and photography became my allies, taking me to the digital world from where I build my work today. It’s this approach that clearly shows I have always been seduced by the light, its transparency and its reflections, the nocturnal and its glares, both from the most radiants and the ones that are just there, leaning on the edge of visibility.
It’s from there that I recreate an ambiance, an emotional mood, a perceptual universe into which we can venture, a universe that sometimes synthesizes to abstraction, becoming an eternal space, deep and sonorous.
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
In my current work, I explore different landscapes and use them as main subjects. Each one of them will look familiar to us, but not because we can visually recognize them.
They will look familiar to us because of all the feelings that will arise within ourselves which appear to be linked to landscapes that are signified in our memory. In the creative process, I intervene in the photographic images. I juxtapose them, multiply them and fragment them.
Like images captured in a blink of an eye, the world of our memories unfolds in each photograph. As it happens with many of our memories that become blurry over time and then return to us as incomplete narrations, the sharpest images get mixed with the more diffuse ones until they turn into almost imperceptible forms or even completely disappear to become a simple plain color.
What would you recommend to an artist new to the city, or to art, in terms of meeting and connecting with other artists and creatives?
In my case, I need to be alone during the creative process. But when I’m not locked down in my studio working on a project I really enjoy sharing time with my colleagues, it’s always very enriching to exchange opinions, knowledge and share projects with them.
When I came to live in Miami I didn’t know anyone and I immediately felt the need to get to know and interact with the local artistic community. It was back then when I applied to be an artist in residence at Art Center South Florida.
I am very grateful to have been accepted there. It was an excellent experience where I met wonderful people and artists from very diverse backgrounds.
What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
I show my work regularly in different galleries, institutions and museums. In the past I had solo exhibitions at Atrium Gallery, O Cinema Miami, Mock Gallery, Angel Guido Art Project Gallery, ThisIsNotAGallery, Centro Cultural Borges, Espacio Urania Giesso and Centro Cultural Recoleta.
I exhibited internationally in different places including Hong Kong, Perú, Finland, Spain, Uruguay, Mexico and throughout the United States: San Diego, Los Angeles, Hollywood Fl, Naples, Miami and New York.
And I also participate in Art Fairs such as Pinta during Basel Week in Miami, BAphoto in Argentina, Lima Photo in Perú, Art Wynwood and Art Palm Beach in Florida, among others. My next exhibition is going to take place in October at the Instituto Cultural de México in Brickell, Miami.
Otherwise, you can find my work in Artemisa Gallery in New York or come visit my studio in Miami Beach. And you can always take a look at my website or find some of my work on ARTSY.com.
Contact Info:
- Website: lujancandria.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/lujancandria/
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