Installation view, Tania Pérez Córdova: Smoke, nearby, MCA Chicago, 2017. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
Tania Pérez Córdova
Smoke, nearby
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [link]
April 15–August 20, 2017
An unabiding factor is crucial to Pérez Córdova’s objects: the unknown third party—referenced but never identified—generating mystery. This unspecified force, reliant on chance, is observed with the intimate details applied to them, which transfers into a form of generosity. There is a rich and potentially vast space between her sculptures encountered and the alternate lives they carry on, as their materials suggest, transforming them into intimate events. Always evolving, the viewer witnesses just one of many iterations within the larger episode that makes up the entirety of an object’s existence. This is only the present. Nothing is finite.
~ Lauren Fulton
images courtesy of MCA Chicago and the artist
Tania Pérez Córdova, Person A / Person B, 2014. Courtesy the artist and joségarcía ,mx
Tania Pérez Córdova, We Focus on a Woman Facing Sideways, 2014. Courtesy the artist and joségarcía ,mx
Installation view, Tania Pérez Córdova: Smoke, nearby, MCA Chicago, 2017. Work shown: Portrait of a Man Unknown, 2013/17 Oil on wood, metal sliders, and a man occasionally wearing a shirt, 21 ¾ x 17 7/8 x 2 5/8 in. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Martin Janda, and joségarcía ,mx. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago