MT Objects

MT Objects is Mauricio Paniagua (born Guatemala 1969) and Tony moxham (born Australia 1971.)
“MT” is a play on the initials of their names and also the word “empty,” the majority of their work being funeral urns, vases, and other vessels. They live and work in Mexico City, and their work reflects an intimate knolwedge of pre-hispanic Mesoamerican culture, design, and ritual. Their ceramic works are laboriously hand pieced in Mexico City by a crew of artisans whose skills vary little from pre-hispanic times. They work as artists within the design industry, albeit with a focus rarely on regular design problem solving. Much of their work is treated as sculpture regardless of function, and as artwork can also be appreciated for it’s design merit and technical proficiency. Partly because of their background in both retail and gallery level design, their artwork is informed by the intersection of the emotional and the irrational with design, the decorative arts, and with production methods stolen directly from the worlds of both commercial and artesanal design.