Tania Perez Cordova: Generalization
SculptureCenter, New York,
23 September – 11 December
The first survey exhibition of the Mexico City–based artist in a United States institution, Generalization presents Pérez Córdova’s conceptual and poetic process. For the first iteration of this exhibition at Museo Tamayo in the artist’s hometown, she had removed the museum’s windows and bent them using heat, transforming them into sculptures (there is also a series of window sculptures made with the windows from her studio). It’s an example of how Pérez Córdova’s work often embarks from an object in the world – a street musician’s trumpet, a set of contact lenses – that the artist appropriates and transforms. The contact lenses are separated: one is worn by a performer who sometimes wanders the exhibition, looking visitors in the eye; the other is incorporated into a sculpture. The trumpet? It’s melted and then recast using a mould of its former self, rendering it unusable for music, also a shadow of itself. Time-based and narrative, Pérez Córdova’s works offer a new form of encounter.
—Orit Gat
