Balise de Shizuoka by Elia Pagliarino

About the artwork:

Original artwork by the artist Elia Pagliarino, created using a double-firing technique, evokes the story of a young tea master determined to revive the ancestral art of the tea ceremony among new generations. Through an iconography blending portraiture, dragons, and tea leaves, the piece celebrates a cultural heritage in transformation.

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About the artist:

“We should not fear ambiguity — we must embrace differences.”

Elia Pagliarino is a French visual artist born in 1967, whose work explores the notions of identity, appearance, and collective memory. Coming from a background marked by diversity and disability, she draws inspiration from ethnology, biology, and popular culture to create works that combine drawing, sculpture, and ceramics. After a career in graphic design and scenography, she has devoted herself fully to art since 2014.

Her work stands out through collections such as Balises©, ceramics preserving life stories, and Contes Sauvages, large drawings depicting an exuberant human bestiary. Winner of the Pure Art Prize in 2017, she continues to explore new artistic forms from her studio in the Aude region.