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Portrait of an Unknown Woman Passing By, 2019
Glazed ceramic, woman wearing a dress occasionally"This ceramic vase has an echo in a small performance; its double is a woman who occasionally passes by, it creates a shared space between oneself and the idea of a stranger..."
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Pérez Córdova’s work’s frequently implying human presence in its indexical nature, the objects are never truly about the performative gesture in and of itself as much as they are about the possibility of the encounter. She uses language to situate each sculpture within a larger narrative, incorporating personal, historical, and social circumstances as integral to an object’s making.
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Tania Pérez Córdova
Portrait of an Unknown Woman Passing By, 2019Glazed ceramic, woman wearing a dress occasionally
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Tania Pérez Córdova
To wink, to cry, 2020Marble, cooper cast, artificial tears,
cosmetic contact lens, a
person wearing one contact
lens of a color different to her/
his eyes occasionally
32.01 x 4.88 x 4.88 inches
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"All the contours refer to spaces I have inhabited and are done by memory. I was thinking how this series is somehow becoming a kind of diary and to me; it's also related to the confinement and life in the last 12 months." - Tania Pérez Córdova
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In the series Contours, 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.
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In Short Sight Box Tania Pérez Córdova dug and then cast a series of holes of varying dimensions. Each sculpture functions both as a physical reminder of emptiness, as well as a practical container hosting rainwater, a silver necklace of Mexican Peso coins, a pair of pearls—one real, one fake—, or volcanic ash.
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Tania Pérez Córdova (b. 1979), Iron Rain, 2020. Graphite crucible, zinc, 11.02 x 11.02 x 10.63 inches, 28 x 28 x 27 cm
"I read that in distant planets there is iron rain, melted metal falling from the skies solidifying as it hits the ground. I wanted to materialize the impossibility of inhabiting that location, imagining a pot collecting that unreachable rain, like a leakage from an unimaginable roof." -Tania Pérez Córdova
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With Iron Rain, she draws inspiration from the scientific knowledge of distant planets where the atmosphere is so hot it rains metal. Her interest is not simply in the phenomenon itself, but also in the fact that it would be impossible to witness such an event. Instead, she must imagine it for herself, leaving us with not just our learned knowledge of the event, but also with its existence as filtered through her own imagination.
Following a period of intense global isolation, Tania Pérez Córdova’s practice feels especially poignant as she zeroes in on the real and imaginary space created between object and viewer. Not only does she reframe this traditional relationship by embedding indeterminate and invisible variables into her sculptures, but she further expands it by forming a connection to a third party: a person, a situation, a location outside in the world.
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