Johanna El Zelah

Johanna El Zelah (Venezuela) is a communications professional who worked for years in audiovisual media: editing, production, podcasts, and storytelling for television. Then, during the pandemic, with the world filled with anxiety, she heard a voice urging her to express herself, and she enrolled in pottery classes. She made a flowerpot, an incense holder, and then... a mask inspired by an Instagram filter that distorted faces. And boom! -- that's how "Solo Guapa" was born.
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Johanna El Zelah

Artist Statement

"Solo Guapa" is a sculptural ceramic project designed for contemplation. Unique pieces where gesture, color, and imperfection construct a strange, sensitive, and humorous universe. This collection explores gesture and contradiction. Exaggerated smiles, intense colors, and ambiguous expressions engage with the need to constantly reveal—or conceal—ourselves. Characters and objects emerge as extensions of thought and desire. These sculptures are born from intuition and humor, where the symbolic and the everyday coexist naturally.