Tania Pérez Córdova

Travesía Cuatro invites you to a conversation with artist Tania Pérez Córdova and Diego Villalobos, as part of her exhibition El aire, hoy.

In El aire, hoy, Tania Pérez Córdova’s first solo exhibition with Travesía Cuatro, the artist presents a set of works that occupy an intermediate space where sensation precedes interpretation. The exhibition’s title evokes a shared premonition rather than a fixed meaning—a preverbal intuition that circulates before it can be articulated. Prioritizing attunement over clarity, the works capture the uncertainty of the present moment, marked by political crises and environmental catastrophe, inviting the viewer to perceive what is happening rather than to resolve it.

— Travesía Cuatro

Tania Pérez Córdova (1979, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. Her sculptural practice relates to the temporality and lifespan of objects. Conceiving her works as “situations,” Pérez Córdova creates sculptures and installations that consider the contextual relationships of everyday objects. She works with a wide range of materials, incorporating found objects and performance through networks of intimate, interpersonal exchanges. The artist’s interest in quotidian events underlines how unremarkable situations can be linked to the infrastructure of our social and economic reality, and the complexity of the contemporary world. These associations beyond the sculptures create a vivid sense of time and space outside the gallery, widening the relationship between artwork and viewer to include external places, people, and actions.

The artist has had solo exhibitions at SculptureCenter, New York (2023), Tina Kim Gallery, New York (2023, 2020); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2022); Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (2023, 2019, 2016); Galerie Art:Concept, Paris (2022); Kunsthalle Basel (2018); and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2017). Her works have been included in a number of institutional exhibitions including the Aichi Triennale (2019); SITE Santa Fe (2018); Gwangju Biennale (2016); New Museum Triennial (2015); and Shanghai Biennial (2012).

Her work is part of important institutional collections such as Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, FR; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, US; Tamayo Museum, MEX, Jumex Collection, MEX; San Francisco Moma, USA; Cisneros Collection, USA; Museo Amparo, MEX, CA2M Collection, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain; El Espacio 23 / Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami, US.

Diego Villalobos is an independent curator based between San Francisco and Mexico City. From 2019 to 2026, he was a curator at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, where he organized exhibitions and public programs with artists including Hiwa K, Anicka Yi, Raven Chacon, and Helen Mirra, and commissioned new works by Tania Pérez Córdova, Álvaro Urbano, and Rodrigo Hernández. Previously, he was a curator at The 500 Capp Street Foundation, organizing exhibitions and programs featuring works by David Ireland, Mike Kelley, Nina Canell, and Isabel Nuño de Buen. He holds a BFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Cover photo by Ramiro Chaves, courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro.