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Photo by: Nicolas Brasseur Tania 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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) Voice, 2013 We belong / We Dissent (from the series Things in Pause), 2013/17 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 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, 2020, Tina Kim Gallery. Photo Hyunjung Rhee Tania Pérez Córdova, installation view Short Sight Box, 2020, 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 Sculpture Center, New York (2023), Museo Tamayo, Mexico (2022-2023), Kunsthalle Basel (2018), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2017). 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.
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Tania Pérez Córdova, Generalization. Introduction with text by Humberto Moro. Text by Magalí Arriola, Elena Filipovic, Gregory R Miller & Company, 2024 Tania Pérez Córdova, Smoke, nearby. Text : José Esparza Chong Cuy. Ed. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2017
