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Tania Bello

– Casa Wabi 2025

Community Project

This workshop, designed for teenagers, takes a highly introspective approach from which formal exploration develops through guided meditations and formal drawing exercises. Participants seek different ways to create, feel, and imagine their own bodies.

This work served as preparation for the “Body Spaces” project, in which each participant created a clay piece using the construction technique best suited to their idea (sketched in the drawings of the first phase). They used materials from their immediate surroundings to complement the clay structures, aiming to cultivate awareness of the connection to the space we inhabit and the environment in which we construct that space that shelters us.

Log-Piece

    Interior Courtyard
    2025
    Terracotta/Sculpture
    36.5 x 36.5 x 6 cm, Language I
    2025
    Terracotta sculpture. Polyptych, 4 pieces.

    A: 13.3 x 9.5 x 29.4 cm
    B: 17 x 6 x 29.9 cm
    C: 25 x 9.5 x 29.8 cm
    D: 18 x 13 x 29.7 cm

    México

    CDMX, 1987

    She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda.”
    The body is the conscious matter through which the subtle ideological structures of the psyche become tangible. When experienced as a space inhabited from within—one that both contains and is contained by another body—it reveals its connection to the house: a place that shelters a first universe where sensations and the objects reflected in them give rise to a language, a system of symbols made of matter.

    From this body-house, which serves as the center of Tania’s research, her attention expands toward the entirety of the earth’s surface—the vast inhabited body that holds the memory of multiple forces. Her cosmogonic perception finds a path through the possibilities of a symbolic dimension of space. Materials become conceptual resources through which she traces links between thought, language, and sensation, uncovering relationships between inner reality (the sensory experience) and the cultural structure within which human experience unfolds.

    Her work has been featured in several solo and group exhibitions, including:
    LENGUAJE OCULTO (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2023)
    CIENO, LODO, FANGO (Studio CROMA, curated by Margot Kalach, Mexico City, 2023)
    EXTRAÑOS EN EL PARAÍSO (collaboration between ALMA COLECTIVA and NAGG, curated by Rubén Méndez and Clarissa Navarro, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2024)
    HYSTERIA KOLECTIVA (Matamoros 404, curated by Axelle Tousaint, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2023)
    5th Edition of F-A-M-A (Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2022)

    In 2022, she received the Jóvenes Creadores grant awarded by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (National Fund for Culture and the Arts) in the Sculpture category for her project HABITAMOS ESTRUCTURAS.
    During 2023, she was part of the ANDAMIAJE project, curated and directed by Patricia Martín.
    She currently lives and works in Oaxaca, where she is the founder and director of Taller de Tierra, a workshop dedicated to creative processes in ceramics.