CARTÚ

CARTÚ is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist and architect whose practice moves between sculpture, ceramics, architecture, and design. Fascinated by the relationship between space, materiality, and time, he experiments with everything from melting wax, frozen ink, ice, and butter to more permanent materials like concrete, plaster, wood, and ceramics. His work explores transformation, the human body, and the tension between what lasts and what disappears.

Over the past decade, CARTÚ has developed his practice across Mexico City, Paris, London, New York, and Japan. He studied architecture at UNAM, where his thesis Ruinas Contemporáneas received the Abraham Zabludovsky Award, before completing an MFA at Parsons School of Design in 2019, graduating with departmental honors. His work has earned recognition from the International Sculpture Center, the MTV RE Award, and the Dedalus Foundation, and has appeared in publications including Architectural Digest, GQ, and Sculpture magazine.

At Call Me Lola, CARTÚ presents Tzompantli, a ceramic installation inspired by the ceremonial skull racks of ancient Mesoamerican cultures. Trading uniformity for individuality, his skulls take on unexpected personalities through playful shapes, bold colors, and contrasting finishes. The installation brings an ancient symbol into the present, where ritual meets irreverence and mortality gets a surprisingly colorful makeover.