< Return

Candela Capitán

Candela Capitán is an artist whose practice focuses on performance, dance, sculpture, drawing, and digital interventions to examine power dynamics, desire, and intimacy in a hypermediated era. From a feminist perspective, her work interrogates the structures of control that shape human relationships, experiences of connection, and body politics.

Through installations, live performances, and audiovisual pieces, Capitán explores issues such as sexuality, fetishism, alienation, and gender dynamics, blurring the boundaries between the personal and the collective. Her approach seeks to establish a critical dialogue between the body, the spectator, and contemporary narratives, transcending the barriers between the physical and the virtual.

@candelacapitan

Photography ©Daniel Cao

Residency Project

GRANJAS HUMANAS (HUMAN FARMS) is a multidisciplinary project that merges dance, performance, and new technologies to reflect on the exploitation of the body and its productivity through technological devices. As a tool for critical inquiry, the piece draws a parallel between two different yet interconnected spaces of exploitation: milking parlors, designed for mass milk production, and the new “influencer farms,” where young people, mainly women, create digital content for companies.

In this work, Capitán explores three of her recurring obsessions: the sense of alienation that prevails in our hypermediated era, the construction of desire and eroticism shaped by the rise of platforms and social media, and the breakdown of society through digital control. The constant pressure for productivity and the feminization of labor will become visible, revealing the complex power dynamics that emerge in the digital spaces we consume daily. These spaces, once envisioned as free and utopian, have largely transformed into controlled domains where the body is once again exploited and turned into a commodity.

As in the artist’s previous works, GRANJAS HUMANAS (HUMAN FARMS) will continue to explore the experience of the virtual spectator, incorporating the smartphone screen as a new mode of vision that complements conventional physical perception.

Residency archive Graner

  • 2025 · open call · GRANJAS HUMANAS
  • 2022 · open call · 19762. Solos y Conectados

Other Graner contexts

Aplec 2022

Z Project 2022

Open Bazaar #3 2020