Exhibition view Generalization,Tania Pérez Córdova, Sculpture Center NY
The exhibition is organized by Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and is curated by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation (former Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo). Photo Charles Benton
Exhibition view Generalization,Tania Pérez Córdova, Sculpture Center NY
The exhibition is organized by Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and is curated by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation (former Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo). Photo Charles Benton
Exhibition view Generalization,Tania Pérez Córdova, Sculpture Center NY
The exhibition is organized by Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and is curated by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation (former Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo). Photo Charles Benton
Exhibition view Generalization,Tania Pérez Córdova, Sculpture Center NY
The exhibition is organized by Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and is curated by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation (former Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo). Photo Charles Benton
Exhibition view Generalization,Tania Pérez Córdova, Sculpture Center NY
The exhibition is organized by Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and is curated by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation (former Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo). Photo Charles Benton
Exhibition view Generalization,Tania Pérez Córdova, Sculpture Center NY
The exhibition is organized by Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and is curated by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation (former Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo). Photo Charles Benton
Exhibition view Generalization,Tania Pérez Córdova, Sculpture Center NY
The exhibition is organized by Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and is curated by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation (former Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo). Photo Charles Benton
Exhibition view Generalization,Tania Pérez Córdova, Sculpture Center NY
The exhibition is organized by Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and is curated by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation (former Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo). Photo Charles Benton
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Tania Pérez Córdova. Generalization, Museo Tamayo, 2022.
Photography by Gerardo Landa and Eduardo López (GLR Estudio). Courtesy of Museo Tamayo.
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Tania Pérez Córdova. Generalization, Museo Tamayo, 2022.
Photography by Gerardo Landa and Eduardo López (GLR Estudio). Courtesy of Museo Tamayo.
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Tania Pérez Córdova. Generalization, Museo Tamayo, 2022.
Photography by Gerardo Landa and Eduardo López (GLR Estudio). Courtesy of Museo Tamayo.
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Tania Pérez Córdova. Generalization, Museo Tamayo, 2022.
Photography by Gerardo Landa and Eduardo López (GLR Estudio). Courtesy of Museo Tamayo.
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Tania Pérez Córdova. Generalization, Museo Tamayo, 2022.
Photography by Gerardo Landa and Eduardo López (GLR Estudio). Courtesy of Museo Tamayo.
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Tania Pérez Córdova. Generalization, Museo Tamayo, 2022.
Photography by Gerardo Landa and Eduardo López (GLR Estudio). Courtesy of Museo Tamayo.
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Tania Pérez Córdova. Generalization, Museo Tamayo, 2022.
Photography by Gerardo Landa and Eduardo López (GLR Estudio). Courtesy of Museo Tamayo.
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Tania Pérez Córdova. Generalization, Museo Tamayo, 2022.
Photography by Gerardo Landa and Eduardo López (GLR Estudio). Courtesy of Museo Tamayo.
Vue de l’exposition/Installation view, Tania Pérez Córdova, All our explanations, Art: Concept, 2022. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by: Nicolas Brasseur 
Vue de l’exposition/Installation view, Tania Pérez Córdova, All our explanations, Art: Concept, 2022. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by: Nicolas Brasseur 
Vue de l’exposition/Installation view, Tania Pérez Córdova, All our explanations, Art: Concept, 2022. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by: Nicolas Brasseur 
Vue de l’exposition/Installation view, Tania Pérez Córdova, All our explanations, Art: Concept, 2022. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by: Nicolas Brasseur 
ania Pérez Córdova, Strelitzia, 2022, Artificial plant, stainless steel, chain, Leaf 80 x 27 x 38 cm ; chain : variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo © Nicolas Brasseur 
The politicians are saying (Los políticos están diciendo), 2022 , Aluminium cast, water, artificial saliva, plastic irrigation system, dripping timed to a speech, 74 × 80 × 64 cm (29 ⅛ × 31 ½ × 25 ¼ inches, Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo © Nicolas Brasseur 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Empty days (Found dead bees, shade of 11 inches macbook air, red velvet lipstick, fragment of a plastic bag, thread, fragment of a tag, tape, paper found on wet pavement, fragment of a leaf, fragment of packing material, lettuce leaf, candy wrapping, dust, color. We didn’t need all those things we bought), 2022, Stratified glass, mixed materials, stainless steel, 140 × 80 × 3 cm (55 ⅛ × 31 ½ × 1 ⅛ inches), Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo © Nicolas Brasseur 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Strike (Huelga), 2018-2022, Bread cooked with cigarettes. Reenactment of a strike, 17,5 × 15 × 14 cm (6 ⅞ × 5 ⅞ × 5 ½ inches), Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo © Nicolas Brasseur 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Todas nuestras explicaciones, 2022, Béton coloré, glace en train de fondre, 26,5 x 38 x 9,5cm. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Small Tragedies 1 (There are dead bees on the ground, they are in extinction, I explain it to my son, whose clothes no longer fit, and have holes, other holes are made by pests, others can be handmade, it is triple filter, it is just dust, It’s blush, it’s trash, it is myopia, it is astigmatism; we didn’t need all those things we bought.), 2021, Stratified glass: reused museum window, found bees, contact lenses, fragments of clothes, receipts, leaf, blush, dust, bread crumbles, fragment of N95 mask, plastic bag, plasticine, tape, uv filter. 150 × 80 cm (59 × 31 ½ inches) 
Tania Pérez Córdova, We Belong /We Dissent (from the series Things in Pause), 2017, marble, borrowed guitar string, 91 x 65 x 3 cm. Indus 2 exhibition view. Photo Fabrice Gousset 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Substraction 1, 2018, Iron (Le Creuset Dutch casserole dish that has been cast, melted, and remelted in its own mold), 2 parts, pot 31 x 22 x 10 cm; lid: 24.4 x 15 cm. 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Sincere I Non-sincere, 2018, gold facsimile necklace, obsidian, water, 26 x 44 x 13 cm. Photo Fabrice Gousset 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Paisaje, 2018, aluminum, various materials (fragment of fence cast, melted, and recast in its own mold), dimensions variable 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Paisaje, 2018, aluminum, various materials (fragment of fence cast, melted, and recast in its own mold), dimensions variable (detail) 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Panorama, 2020, Professional airbrush sunless spray tan on canvas
210 × 116 cm (82 7/10 × 45 7/10 in)
Tania Pérez Córdova, Voice, 2013, Borrowed sim card, porcelain, 36.5 x 25.8 cm (14 3/8 x 10 3/16 inches). Photo Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist, José García and Galerie Perrotin 
Tania Pérez Córdova, installation view Daylength of a room, Kunsthalle Basel, 2018. Photo Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel 
Tania Pérez Córdova, installation view Daylength of a room, Kunsthalle Basel, 2018. Photo Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel 
Tania Pérez Córdova, installation view Daylength of a room, Kunsthalle Basel, 2018. Photo Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel 
Tania Pérez Córdova, installation view Daylength of a room, Kunsthalle Basel, 2018. Photo Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel 
Tania Pérez Córdova, Short Sight Box – Hole E, 2020, Imprint of a hole dug in a field, earth, plant roots, plaster, mesh, enamel paint, South Sea pearl, artificial pearl, 80 × 66 × 26.7 cm (31 1/2 × 26 × 10 1/2 in). 
Tania Pérez Córdova, installation view Short Sight Box at Tina Kim Gallery. Photo Hyunjung Rhee 
Tania Pérez Córdova, installation view Short Sight Box at Tina Kim Gallery. Photo Hyunjung Rhee
Biography
Tania Pérez Córdova (b. 1979) is a Mexican artist born in Mexico City where she lives and works. After studying at the school of Fine Arts in Mexico City, she went on to get a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London.
Tania Pérez Córdova uses a large range of media, namely sculpture, found objects and installation, but also photography and performance, through which she explores the contextual relationship between everyday objects. The visual elements she presents are meant to be understood in the context of a larger narrative to which the titles give the keys – the artist likes to refer to her works as ‘situations’.
« Pérez Córdova layers different technologies, time periods and materials — gunpowder, cigarette ash, makeup, foam, bronze poured into sand, jewellery — to present poetic snapshots of a narrative that has already happened or might yet take place. Her elegant sculptures are questions hanging in the air, a feeling unarticulated.
In her intimate creations, vestiges of human presence can be discerned as objects are given new purposes; a medallion of melted beer cans trapped between reused window glass, a bronze cast of someone’s pocket, a coloured contact lens on marble. She often activates her sculptures through a playfully performative element such as having a person in the gallery wear the partner contact lens or earring to one in a sculpture. »*
*Text by d’Elizabeth Fullerton
Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Museo Tamayo in Mexico (2022-2023), Kunsthalle Basel (2018), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2017) and soon at Sculpture Center, New York (2024). Her work is part of important public collections such as Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago/US, Tamayo Museum/MEX, Jumex Collection/MEX, San Francisco Moma/US, Cisneros Collection/US-VEN, Museo Amparo/MEX.
‘All our explanations’ showed at Art:Concept in January 2022 is her first solo exhibition in France.
At the gallery
- All our explanations, 22 January 2022 – April 9, 2022
- Indus 2, 2019
Video
- Interview with Lorenzo Benedetti, Art : Concept, 2022
- “Smoke, nearby” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago