C A R T Ú

HARAJUKU is a portrait of death and the way its understood in different latitudes. Solid, immobile and fired, the ceramic pieces made by Cartú allegorize the deepest of human emotions, alluding to their timeless character. Made of clay, wood and gold, the substance remains, the myths continue to be rewritten, the endings find new beginnings. The pendulum that navigates between the world of the living and the many representations of the dead, has never stopped swinging, from the first tzompantlli to the most recent unjust assassinations. Emerging from the author’s experiences in Harajuku, Tokyo’s most eccentric neighborhood, new characters are added to a long tradition of sculptures and ceramics on human substance.

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“Is beauty enough to celebrate life and death equally? “

The series of sculptures presented in the framework of this exhibition and the symbolisms that surround them, invite us to meditate on the infinite nuances that these representations contain. Japan and Mexico find a shared territory in these ceramic pieces, that are complemented with complex jewelry designs, that seem to fall like tears from their eyes. The exhibition intertwines iconographies and representations of both countries, conceiving new idols and rituals, with which the viewer has the possibility of interacting.

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