Images: Tania Pérez Córdova, Protest, 2025. Viaje a la luna, June 12–October 11, 2025; installation view, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Photo: by Chris Grunder.

Tania Pérez Córdova presents Protest (2025) a sculpture commissioned by Wattis Institute of the Arts in San Francisco for the group exhibition VIAJE A LA LUNA, curated by Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio and Diego Villalobos.

Tania Pérez Córdova approaches sculpture as an event – one shaped by time, context and use. Her works explore how objects shift in meaning as they circulate, often blurring the line between fiction and reality. Rooted in narrative and performativity, her sculptures reflect quiet transformations, inviting viewers to consider what an object was, is, and might become. In Protest, Pérez Córdova creates a fountain in the form of a rain chain, fashioned from aluminum pots and pans that are melted and transformed. Referencing the cacerolazo, a form of protest where demonstrators bang pots and pans, the fountain slowly drips water mixed with artificial saliva, echoing the tension between political urgency and muted resistance.

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