Popdots

The collective Popdots presents Excesos at Plataforma, in collaboration with Cerámica Suro.

Founded in Guadalajara in 2012, Popdots is a collective comprised of Melissa Aldrete, Luis Cárdenas, and Moisés Bautista. Their practice intersects ceramics, design, and contemporary art to investigate the relationship between objects, materiality, and everyday experience. Through manual processes, the accumulation of waste materials, and material experimentation, the collective approaches ceramic craft as an open and mutable system capable of generating questions around time, transformation, memory, and consumption. In recent years, Popdots has expanded its research into installations and projects that engage social, philosophical, and ecological concerns through the language of contemporary ceramics.

The sculptural installation Excesos addresses excess as an inseparable condition of contemporary life. Through a work that simultaneously evokes a monument, a container, and a relic, the installation examines how consumption, permanence, and the desire to leave a trace shape our relationship to objects, memory, and the passage of time. The piece proposes a critical reflection on systems of accumulation and on the contemporary impossibility of separating life, excess, and waste.

—Plataforma