The exhibition continued the artists’ exploration of porcelain as a medium historically associated with refinement, domesticity, and the applied arts, while using it to challenge the cultural expectations and hierarchies attached to these traditions.
A central concern of Pop Porn was the marginalization of women within the history of the applied arts and the persistent double standards imposed on women by cisheteropatriarchal culture. Through deliberately provocative imagery and an irreverent approach to subjects traditionally shaped by restrictive moral codes, the works confronted the legacy of Victorian morality and the continued influence of misogynistic ideas surrounding women’s bodies, sexuality, and creativity.