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Tania Pérez Córdova

CDMX, Mexico. 1979
Generalization, installation view

Sculpture Center NY, USA, 2023.
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Sculpture Center NY, USA, 2023.
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Sculpture Center NY, USA, 2023.
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Sculpture Center NY, USA, 2023.
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Sculpture Center NY, USA, 2023.
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Sculpture Center NY, USA, 2023.
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Sculpture Center NY, USA, 2023.
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX, 2023
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX, 2023
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX, 2023
Curated by Humberto Moro

Generalization, installation view

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX, 2023
Curated by Humberto Moro

All our explanations, installation view

Art Concept, Paris, France, 2024.

All our explanations, installation view

Art Concept, Paris, France, 2024.

All our explanations, installation view

Art Concept, Paris, France, 2024.

All our explanations, installation view

Art Concept, Paris, France, 2024.

Daylength of a room, installation view

Kuntshalle Basel, Switzerland, 2018

Daylength of a room, installation view

Kuntshalle Basel, Switzerland, 2018

Daylength of a room, installation view

Kuntshalle Basel, Switzerland, 2018

Daylength of a room, installation view

Kuntshalle Basel, Switzerland, 2018

Daylength of a room, installation view

Kuntshalle Basel, Switzerland, 2018

Daylength of a room, installation view

Kuntshalle Basel, Switzerland, 2018

SHORT SIGHT BOX, view installation

Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA, 2020

SHORT SIGHT BOX, view installation

Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA, 2020

SHORT SIGHT BOX, view installation

Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA, 2020

SHORT SIGHT BOX, view installation

Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA, 2020

Smoke, nearby, installation view

MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, 2017

Smoke, nearby, installation view

MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, 2017

Smoke, nearby, installation view

MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, 2017

Smoke, nearby, installation view

MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, 2017

Smoke, nearby, installation view

MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, 2017

The quiet and contemplative works of Tania Pérez Córdova relate to temporality and the lifespan of objects. With her installations having often been likened to film sets, she uses language to situate each work within a larger narrative, forgoing the autonomy of objects in favor of their integral role within a nexus. Her practice spans across media, incorporating sculpture, photography, found objects, and activation or performance. Objects function as characters in Pérez Córdova’s installations. With her guidance and care they seem to undergo narrative arcs and inherent changes. Verbal clues in artwork titles incite the viewer to consider both the lifespan of the object and the practices and actions that were involved in its making. She considers media in an abstract sense, often embedding actions and situations into an object as a material itself. Such references to the world beyond the sculpture itself create a vivid sense of time and space outside the gallery. She strategically widens the nuanced relationship between artwork and viewer to include external places, people, and actions.

Tania Pérez Córdova lives and works in Mexico City. She has had solo exhibitions at Sculpture Center, New York (2023) Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2022); Tina Kim Gallery (2020); Martin Jand Gallery, Wien (2019), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2018), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2017).

Her works have been included in a number of institutional exhibitions including the Aichi Triennale (2019), SITE Santa Fe (2018), the Gwangju Biennale (2016), the New Museum Triennial (2015), and the Shanghai Biennial (2012).

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, CA2M Collection, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.