Painted in Japanese watercolor over a period in 2019 that artist Johanna Tagada spent traveling between India and England, the Tea Vessel series pays homage to tea cultures of two countries, while acknowledging her own personal tea practice as central to her being. As the idiom goes, what makes a teapot is the empty space inside. In Tagada’s straightforward, monochromatic rendering the watercolour is left to swirl and pool inside the bounds of the form, suggesting a latent potential in both the volume and the space around it.
Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, b. 1990, Strasbourg, France, is a painter and transdisciplinary artist whose practice is built on her appreciation of daily life and creative meditations, expanding outwards to incorporate ecological observations and wider cultural theories. Recent solo exhibitions include Dreaming About Tomorrow at Nidi Gallery in Tokyo. Recent group exhibitions include One Foot in The Sky at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer and Edge Effects at Whitechapel Gallery in England. Recent talks include Permaculture & Poetics at Tate Modern in London, and recent artist residencies include BOAN1942 in Seoul. Publications on her practice have been released internationally by imprints, including Chose Commune, Nieves, InOtherWords, Jane & Jeremy, Editions Ulmer, Hato Press and Tombolo Presses. She lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, England.
Japanese watercolor on paper
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