Tania Pérez Córdova, Spare Change, 2019
Brass and bronze (trumpet that was cast, melted and recast into its own mold), 13 × 47 × 15 cm
Tania Pérez Córdova
Born 1979 in Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico
Through her works, Tania Pérez Córdova adresses topics like the passage of time, the nature of materials, the gaze of the other, the imminence or possibility of an action, the way in which we assign value to objects, negative space. Her sculptures often explore material processes as a narrative tool for examining time, identities, and places. In the series Things Into Themselves, the artist took on the task of making objects while somehow undoing them: For A fence into a fence 7, she first produced a mold of the object, then cut the fence into pieces, melted it, and recast a new iteration into that first mold. A piece of a fence now becoming something new, unusable, fragile, a step closer to its own dissipation.
Tania Perez-Cordova, Glass Rain (first day), 2024
Graphite crucible, glass, 28 × 28 × 28 cm
Tania Pérez Córdova, Small Tradegies (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, 150 × 86 × 1.5 cm
Tania Pérez Córdova, A Bell Into a Bell, 2021
Bronze, rope, 59 × 60 × 58 cm. Photo: Andrea Rossetti
Tania Pérez Córdova, Contour # 12, 2021
Bronze poured into sand, 150 × 100 × 2 cm
Tania Pérez Córdova, Paisaje VI, 2018
Aluminium, guitar string (fragment of a fence that was cast, melted and recast into its own mold), 97.5 × 77 × 3 cm
Tania Pérez Córdova, Background, 2018
Aluminium (door that was cast, melted, and recast into its own mold), 190 × 74 × 6.5 cm
Exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2018
Tania Pérez Córdova, A Man Forcing His Biceps To Show Off His Strength, 2017
Petrified earth, 29 × 22 × 7 cm
Tania Pérez Córdova, Handhold 2, 2016
Earth, grass, varnish, bronze cast in someone's pocket, 50 × 51 × 6 cm
