STILL MORE FRAGILE
LUJÁN CANDRIA
THU - SUN
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Faena Art Project Room
Faena Art is proud to present Miami-Based artist, resident at the Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC), and recipient of the 2025 Ellis Creator Award presented by Oolite Arts.
In Still More Fragile, Luján Candria creates a site-specific, immersive environment embracing the quiet stillness that sits below the oceans surface while waves crash above. The installation brings together layered translucent photographic textiles in deep soothing blues and greens of waters gently shifting and overlapping. As viewers move through the work, they enter a realm that feels deep, evoking the calm and suspended moment when submerged in still waters and all the world is quiet.
The ocean is not only a visual presence but a metaphor for memory itself. Memories like the ocean are vast, elusive, and constantly in motion. Like the depths of the sea, memory can feel tranquil yet disorienting, tender yet immense. In this softened darkness, the work invites a humble pause, a space to reflect on how our memories shape our inner landscape and a tranquil moment mirrors the fluidity of memory, always changing, a bit elusive, and full of quiet wonder.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Luján Candria is a Miami-based Argentine artist. She graduated in Sculpture from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) and holds an Associate Degree from the Escuela Nacional de Cerámica. She also studied Applied Musical Computer Science at Fonorama and Image Editing at Mac Training Center (UNTREF), all in Buenos Aires.
Her multidisciplinary practice explores the fragmented and mutable nature of memory, using poetic visual language across photography, video, textiles, and installations. Her work reflects the fluidity of identity, the enduring power of nature, and the delicate interplay between memory and perception. It invites exploration of the nuances of existence and the beauty found within the ever-shifting landscapes of our lives. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at international galleries and institutions and featured in group exhibitions, art fairs, and festivals across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Candria was awarded The Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts (2025) and, in the same year,
the Artist Access Grant from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and FUNDarte. She has also been the recipient of the Miami Individual Artists Grant (2023–2024); the Locust Projects–Andy Warhol Foundation Miami Artist Relief Fund; the MAS! Artist Grant; and the
Oolite Arts Relief Fund (2020). She received the ArtReview Prize, which led to a residency at Casa Wabi in Mexico (2019). She has additionally been selected as an artist-in-residence at Bakehouse Art Complex (currently) and at Oolite Arts in Miami.
ABOUT THE ELLIES
The Ellies are named for Oolite Arts' founder Ellie Schneiderman, who had the foresight to turn empty storefronts on Lincoln Road into artist studios. Today, Oolite Arts is one of the largest visual artist support organizations in Miami, with expanded programming that includes The Ellies, residency programs that cultivate the careers of emerging artists, the professional development series Skills and more. Schneiderman, who led a distinguished career as an arts leader and artist, passed away in 2020.
ABOUT OOLITE ARTS
Oolite Arts strives to be a leader in the South Florida contemporary cultural scene as a creative and learning center, and internationally recognized as a world class cultural center. The mission of Oolite Arts is to support artists and advance the knowledge and practice of contemporary visual arts and culture in South Florida. Oolite Arts creates opportunities for experimentation and innovation, and encourages the exchange of ideas across cultures through residencies, exhibitions, public programs, education and outreach.