Chicago
“Smoke, nearby,” the ambiguous title of Tania Pérez Córdova’s first major U.S. museum exhibition (organized by José Esparza Chong Cuy), alerted one to the convoluted sensibility at work in the show. Born in Mexico City, Córdova received her BA in fine art, studio practice, and contemporary critical studies at Goldsmiths College in 2005. This concentration in critical studies is of note since concept appears to take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns in her work, which is based in the belief that visual art is guided as much …see the entire review in the print version of March’s Sculpture magazine.
