Much of Pérez Córdova's practice deals in memorialized or imagined spaces. With Iron Rain, she draws inspiration from the scientific knowledge of distant planets where the fiery atmosphere rains metal. Her interest extends beyond the phenomenon itself, into the realm of the uncertain, grasping our inability to witness measures beyond us. Instead, she must imagine through her work, leaving us with not just our learned knowledge of the event, but also with its existence filtered through her own imagination. 

Tania Pérez Córdova uses language to situate each sculpture within a larger narrative, incorporating personal, historical, and social circumstances as integral to an object’s making. In the series Contours from 2020, liquified bronze was poured into patterns drawn into the sand to create what the artist describes as approximations of real spaces. Outlines of windows, doors, and passageways recall memories of extant rooms redefining the position of an unknown observer the potential bearer of such memory. Adding to the construct, come contours seem to reflect the perspective of the viewer standing at a determinate angle, layering the relationship between the object and the experience of the object. These objects memorialize not the actual passageways themselves, but rather the artist's own memories of such places as her presumably imprecise recollections become the sculptures' foundation. 

Born in 1979, Tania Pérez Córdova lives and works in Mexico City. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2017) and Kunsthalle Basel (2018). 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 currently on view at Museo Jumex and Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and will be part of a group show at GAMEC, Bergamo.