Tania Pérez Córdova (Mexican, b. 1979) is an artist based in Mexico City whose sculptural compositions suggest the passing of time. Inscribed in her seemingly static pieces are hints of an active contemporary life: a borrowed gold earring is suspended from a bronze cast, an active credit card is inserted in a clay platter, a stranger’s SIM card is embedded in a porcelain slab. These objects make visible the artist’s negotiations with third parties—with the women left without one gold earring, with the credit card user, the bank, and the whole credit system. The sculptures are all of us, our relationship to digital communication.
Pérez Córdova’s interest in quotidian events underlines how even unremarkable situations can be compelling acts when associated with a complex infrastructure of social or economic relationships. They are performative works that do not move, “contemporary relics,” as she calls them. Pérez Córdova’s Ascendant Artist exhibition will be her first solo museum presentation in the United States.
The exhibition is organized by José Esparza Chong Cuy, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
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Tania Pérez Córdova: Puzzles and Promises
Art in America April 13, 2021The materials list for Tania Pérez Córdova’s We Focus on a Woman Facing Sideways (2013/17) reads as follows: “Bronze, Swarovski Crystal drop earring, and a...Learn More -
Tania Pérez Córdova: Sculptures as Events | In Conversation with Lauren Cornell
Ocula January 13, 2021Take We Focus on a Woman Facing Sideways (2013–2017), most recently recreated for the artist's solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (...Learn More
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Murakami and Perez Cordova form an unexpected symmetry at the MCA
The Chicago Tribune July 19, 2017Taken together, two solo exhibitions currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art demand this odd question. The shows are 'The Octopus Eats Its...Learn More -
Homecoming: Tania Pérez Córdova // MCA Chicago
THE SEEN May 23, 2017While Smoke, Nearby , an exhibition of work by Mexico City-based Tania Pérez Córdova , which recently opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,...Learn More
