Taba Kiera

ARTWORKS & OBJECTS
for MODERN MYTHOLOGIES

I make textural & biomaterial works,
for collectors living in synthetic worlds,
objects that remember
what alive used to feel like.

My artworks appear alive, permanently suspended
between organic matter & constructed surface.

They exist in tension: between nature & artificiality,
vitality & control, body & object,
and echo the human condition in an artificial world.

Across paintings, ceramics, and wearable sculptures,
all series are bound by a single inquiry:
what society seeks to control and what remains truly free.

For collectors drawn to deep time, mysticism,
and ritualized encounters with materiality.

Why collect my work?

Collectors will find pieces that challenge assumptions about material, freedom, and time. The works engage with topics your social circles are intrigued by. They also invite a renewed encounter with the body, nature, and ritual.

Ideal for collectors seeking material depth and conceptual resonance.

Biomaterial Series (ongoing):
Cosmos of Living Skins (2025-26)

Technique:
Bio-Tempera/Acrylic Encapsulation

I mix tempera or acrylics with organic matter that was once alive—bacterial cellulose, fungi, skin-like materials—and suspend it within a synthetic coating. These works explore the tension between life and its containment:
preservation as a form of control, and beauty concealing violence. What appears organic is often immobilized, contained, subdued, and distanced from its origin, mirroring the contemporary body in a world shaped by artificial systems.

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Landscape Series (in progress):
Candy Land
2026

Material:
Oil Paint on Canvas

When I look at the world around me, I see sugar-fueled fairy lands, portraying obsessive order and hidden human-made artificiality as beauty.
I feel charmed and suffocated, simultaneously.

The Candy Land series are not a departure from the biomaterial work. They are the same inquiry moved into landscape and painting and into the exploration of synthetic materials, e.g, skin-like latex. Where the encapsulations trap organic matter physically, these oil paintings trap an entire psychology inside artificial sweetness. The violence is the same—something alive is held inside something engineered—but in these works the cage is more nuanced, and hardly tanglible. Both ask:
what does it cost, to be this contained, this beautiful?

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Series:
Ritual: Dining with the gods

2025

Material:
Ceramic

Organic shapes and textures
inspired by skin, fur, scales, feathers, and wrinkles.

My ceramics extend the investigation of organic texture
into the objects that surround us, blending ritualistic form with everyday utility,
and echoing the tension explored in my paintings.

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"Szlachta"
A handcrafted collection of wearable objects
2024

These pieces highlight the naked body as a threshold of vulnerability & authenticity, a physical counterpart
to the suspended matter in my other works.

Material rests on the body without correcting it,
exposing its unedited form.

These works occupy the threshold
between adornment and exposure.
They resist aesthetic control,
allowing the body to remain unresolved.

Created during an art residency in the Gorzanow Palace
in Lower Silesia, a renaissance mansion with incredible history—which inspired my artistic research into
Polish nobility (Szlachta), the past garment customs
of the region, and the ways to defy religious
influences found in the Polish royalty attire.