Tania Pérez Córdova: Tragic, comic and bold facts.

05.06.–20.07.2019

Tania Pérez Córdova
Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2019
Photo: Anna Konrath

Tania Pérez Córdova
Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2019
Photo: Anna Konrath

Tania Pérez Córdova
Rain, 2018
aluminum (fragment of a roof that was cast, melted, and recast into its own mold)
82,5 x 54 x 4 cm

Tania Pérez Córdova
Spare change, 2019
brass and bronze (trumpet that was cast, melted and recast into its own mold)
13 x 47 x 15 cm

Tania Pérez Córdova
Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2019
Photo: Anna Konrath

Tania Pérez Córdova
Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2019
Photo: Anna Konrath

Tania Pérez Córdova
Temporary space between two strangers, fourth bite, 2019
stone-plaster, silver, wall paint
55 x 8 x 3 cm

Tania Pérez Córdova
México, 2014
marble, plastic, bottle caps, pot
48,5 x 33 x 19,5 cm

Tania Pérez Córdova
Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2019
Photo: Anna Konrath

Tania Pérez Córdova
Exhibition view, Galerie Martin Janda, 2019
Photo: Anna Konrath

Tania Pérez Córdova
Tragic, comic and bold facts., 2019

Tania Pérez Córdova
A man forcing his biceps to show off his strength, 2017
petrified earth
29 x 22 x 7 cm

Tania Pérez Córdova
A man forcing his biceps to show off his strength, 2017
petrified earth
29 x 22 x 7 cm

Opening: Tuesday 4th June 2019, 7 pm

Galerie Martin Janda is happy to announce Tania Pérez Córdova's second solo exhibition at the gallery, Tragic, comic and bold facts.

A man passes by playing a trumpet. He is looking for spare change. The melody sounds familiar. And so it starts a collection of encounters. A trumpet, a pot, a water pipe, a hanger have been cast, melted and recast into their own mold. As such they become a copy of themselves, losing a percentage of themselves in the process of becoming. If the action would be repeated enough times, these objects might potentially disappear.
 
A small note in an Egyptian museum in Italy stated how some sculptures were recycled by successive dynasties simply by slightly changing the facial expression of the carvings.
A mouth and an eye in pumice stone reenact such behavior. The mouth is shown in its second reiteration, this time wearing red lipstick.
 
A series of pieces made from extra hard, stone-like plaster normally used to create dental impressions materialize the temporary distance between two strangers. The indents of both the people’s bites and the making of the object have been filled with gold and silver.
 
A series of marble fragments carrying artificial teeth, plastic nails, a fake gold necklace, cosmetic contact lens, among other materials: a nonspecific human portrait through a collection of synthetic extensions of the body.
 
A ceramic slab holding three different types of birds' droppings.
 
In the distance, a person wearing a blue striped shirt passes by.
 
Finally, in the background, volcano ash.

Text: Tania Pérez Córdova

Tania Pérez Córdova, *1979 in Mexico City, lives and works in Mexico City.