Guadalupe Quesada (Mexico City, 1988) lives and works in Mexico City.

My practice investigates how systems of knowledge shape what we recognize as life, value, and reality. I am interested in the instability of categories, biological, cultural, and perceptual, and in how these classifications determine what is rendered visible, intelligible, or excluded.

 

Drawing from biological structures such as microorganisms, corals, and fungi, organisms defined by interdependence rather than individuality, as well as speculative imagery from science and science fiction, I construct ceramic forms that resist fixed identities. Through processes of fragmentation, fusion, and repetition, I generate hybrid entities that exist between species, states, and functions. These forms challenge the authority of taxonomies that attempt to define life through rigid hierarchies and binaries.

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Ceramics is central to my practice for its plastic freedom and capacity for transformation. Clay allows me to model, alter, and reconfigure forms intuitively, supporting an open and exploratory approach to making. The firing process introduces an element of unpredictability, colors shift, surfaces evolve, and outcomes resist full control, requiring a detachment from fixed results. Embracing this uncertainty is essential to my work, allowing each piece to emerge through a dialogue between intention, material, and chance.

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The figures I create often appear unfamiliar, even alien, yet they retain a sense of recognition. This tension reflects my interest in how difference is produced and perceived. By unsettling visual norms and biological expectations, my work proposes life as a continuum rather than a fixed order, one in which humans are not central, but contingent.

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Ultimately, my practice asks how alternative forms of existence might emerge if we loosen our attachment to imposed categories and acknowledge the political consequences of how we define, name, and control the world around us.