Tania Pérez Córdova: Smoke, Nearby

$16.98 at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Tania Pérez Córdova’s (Mexican, b. 1979) sculptures bear signs of quotidian events that, if looked at carefully, expose a complex network of social relationships. Seemingly static, her works—such as a borrowed gold earring suspended from a bronze cast and a clay platter with the impression of an active debit card—hint at the lives of others and encourage viewers to complete narratives, by recognizing what, or who, is missing. This catalogue was occasioned by the Mexico City–based artist’s first solo museum…