{"title":"Johanna El Zelah","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohanna El Zelah models feeling into clay. Her hand-built ceramic sculptures — low-temperature pieces finished in engobes and enamels — turn masks, flowers, and the female figure into small, charged objects with titles that read like confessions: Positivamente Tóxica, No estoy triste, Buscando un recuerdo. There’s pop wit on the surface and something tender underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplore more \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sculptures\"\u003esculptures\u003c\/a\u003e by Johanna El Zelah, or discover other \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/artists\"\u003eartists\u003c\/a\u003e at Art of NOMA.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"positivamente-toxica-4-original-sculpture-by-johanna-el-zelah","title":"Positivamente Tóxica #4 Original Sculpture by Johanna El Zelah","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohanna El Zelah models feeling into clay. Her hand-built ceramics turn masks, flowers, and the female figure into small, charged objects with titles that read like confessions. Positivamente Tóxica #4 belongs to a series that turns the language of relentless positivity against itself, where affirmations curdle into something sharper — pop wit on the surface, something more tender underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt in low-temperature ceramic and finished with engobes and enamels, the piece is modeled entirely by hand, so its surface and gesture are the artist's own. The glazing shifts between matte and sheen as it catches the light, and the compact, held scale trades size for wit — an object meant to be picked up and turned over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLow-temperature ceramic, engobes and enamels; hand-modeled · 2026 · 20 × 16 × 10 cm (7.9 × 6.3 × 3.9 in) · 560 g · Unique work · Certificate of authenticity included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johanna El Zelah","offers":[{"title":"20 cm tall x 16 cm long x 10 cm deep \/  7.87 in tall x 6.29 in long x 3.93 in deep","offer_id":44430532214870,"sku":null,"price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/1806\/8054\/files\/SG_Positivamentetoxica_4_1.jpg?v=1775839100"},{"product_id":"positivamente-toxica-3-original-sculpture-by-johanna-el-zelah","title":"Positivamente Tóxica #3 Original Sculpture by Johanna El Zelah","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohanna El Zelah models feeling into clay, turning masks, flowers, and the female figure into small, charged objects whose titles read like confessions. Positivamente Tóxica #3 comes from the series that sets the language of relentless positivity against itself — bright and knowing on the surface, quietly vulnerable beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand-modeled in low-temperature ceramic and finished with engobes and enamels, the piece carries the marks of the artist's own working — every contour and gesture formed by hand. The glaze moves between matte and sheen depending on the light, and the intimate, held scale invites close handling over display at a distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLow-temperature ceramic, engobes and enamels; hand-modeled · 2026 · 20 × 16 × 9 cm (7.9 × 6.3 × 3.5 in) · 515 g · Unique work · Certificate of authenticity included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johanna El Zelah","offers":[{"title":"20 cm tall x 16 cm long x 9 cm deep \/  7.87 in tall x 6.29 in long x 3.54 in deep","offer_id":44430787280982,"sku":null,"price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/1806\/8054\/files\/SG_Positivamentetoxica_3_1.jpg?v=1775843176"},{"product_id":"no-estoy-triste-azul-original-sculpture-by-johanna-el-zelah","title":"No estoy triste (azul) Original Sculpture by Johanna El Zelah","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohanna El Zelah models feeling into clay, shaping masks, flowers, and the female figure into small, charged objects with titles that sound like confessions. No estoy triste (azul) — “I'm not sad (blue)” — plays that contradiction openly, the denial and the color pulling against each other in a single hand-built form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade in low-temperature ceramic with engobes, grog, and enamels, the piece is modeled entirely by hand; the grog lends the clay body a coarser, more granular texture under the glaze. Finished in its titular blue, the surface shifts between matte and sheen, an intimate object built to be held as much as seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLow-temperature ceramic, engobes, grog and enamels; hand-modeled · 2026 · 17 × 19 × 10 cm (6.7 × 7.5 × 3.9 in) · 500 g · Unique work · Certificate of authenticity included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johanna El Zelah","offers":[{"title":"17 cm tall x 19 cm long x 10 cm deep \/ 6.69 in tall x 7.48 in long x 3.93 in deep","offer_id":44430799994966,"sku":null,"price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/1806\/8054\/files\/SG_Noestoytriste_azul__1.jpg?v=1775843615"},{"product_id":"buscando-un-recuerdo-original-sculpture-by-johanna-el-zelah","title":"Buscando un recuerdo Original Sculpture by Johanna El Zelah","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohanna El Zelah models feeling into clay, turning masks, flowers, and the female figure into small, charged objects whose titles read like confessions. Buscando un recuerdo (“searching for a memory”) sets that quiet, interior act into ceramic form — a piece about reaching back for something half-remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand-modeled in low-temperature ceramic and finished with engobes and enamels, the work is formed entirely by the artist's hand. At roughly 23 centimeters in each direction and heavier in the hand than the smaller pieces, it has real physical presence, its glazed surface moving between matte and sheen as the light shifts across it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLow-temperature ceramic, engobes and enamels; hand-modeled · 2026 · 23 × 23 × 19 cm (9.1 × 9.1 × 7.5 in) · 2.4 kg · Unique work · Certificate of authenticity included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johanna El Zelah","offers":[{"title":"23 cm tall x 23 cm long x 19 cm deep \/ 9.05 in tall x 9.05 in long x 7.48 in deep","offer_id":44430810906710,"sku":null,"price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/1806\/8054\/files\/SG_Buscandounrecuerdo_1.jpg?v=1775844188"},{"product_id":"100-pajaros-volando-original-sculpture-by-johanna-el-zelah","title":"100 pájaros volando Original Sculpture by Johanna El Zelah","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohanna El Zelah models feeling into clay, shaping masks, flowers, and the female figure into small, charged objects with confessional titles. 100 pájaros volando (“100 birds flying”) lifts that vocabulary toward flight and release — a hand-built piece whose title imagines motion and multiplicity held in a single still form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade in low-temperature ceramic and finished with engobes and enamels, the sculpture is modeled entirely by hand. Roughly cubic at about 20 centimeters and substantial in weight, it reads as a solid, grounded object — the imagined flock caught, paradoxically, in something fixed and heavy. 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