RUS x Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck
Johanna Tagada’s practice brings to mind the concept of art for pleasure, an exploration of positivity and meaningfulness through her own vocabulary of colors and shapes. Surrounded by nature in rural Alsace during the 2020 Spring lockdown, Johanna collaborated with RUS creating a series of collages inspired by “The Lightness of Being”, working with the materials she had in hand such as found paper collage, tea wrappers and pencils on paper (as part of her work series Cocooning).
03.- RUS collage- Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck - Cocooning - 2020
10.- RUS collage- Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck - Cocooning - 2020
12.- RUS collage- Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck - Cocooning - 2020
01.- RUS collage- Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck - Cocooning - 2020
08.- RUS collage- Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck - Cocooning - 2020
06.- RUS collage- Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck - Cocooning - 2020
02.- RUS collage- Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck - Cocooning - 2020
Bio
Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck (b.1990, Strasbourg, France) is a painter and interdisciplinary artist working across London (UK) and rural Alsace (France). Her practice composed of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, film, photography and writing often conceals ecological messages, rendered in soft and delicate methods. In several of the artist’s projects interaction with the environment and others plays a central role. Solo exhibitions include Épistolaire Imaginaire – Merci at Galerie Jean-Francois Kaiser, and Take Care – きをつけてat Nidi Gallery. In 2014, Johanna founded the positive and collaborative cultural project Poetic Pastel. In 2018, the artist cofounded the publication series Journal du Thé – Contemporary Tea Culture in collaboration with T.S. Wendelstein.
Instagram @johannatagada