Biography
Tatiana Monét is a Brooklyn-based artist working across ceramics and design. Her practice is rooted in physicality and intuition, exploring how personal experience, memory, and emotion can become tangible through form.
Working primarily through handbuilding, she is drawn to the slowness and fluidity of clay, allowing forms to emerge and evolve rather than follow predetermined plans. Before focusing on ceramics, Tatiana spent over 18 years studying and working in dance and movement, an influence that continues to shape the way she builds. She approaches clay as a collaborator, allowing the making process to become a conversation with memory, intuition, and the unseen. Her work reflects an ongoing exploration of transformation, spirituality, embodiment, and our connection to one another.
Artist Statement
I approach clay as a collaborator, allowing the making process to become a conversation with memory, intuition, and the unseen. Rather than beginning with a fixed outcome, I allow forms to emerge and evolve through touch, repetition, and trust.
Clay has become the language through which I translate what feels intangible into form. It allows me to give shape to visions, intuition, memory, and experiences that often exist beyond language. Making is less about executing a plan and more about listening to what is asking to emerge.
Through clay, I've found a way to communicate that feels more honest than words. It gives me a language for experiences that are often difficult to explain. If my work offers anything, I hope it creates a space where others feel seen and safe enough to connect with themselves, with one another, or with something they can't quite name.
Photography by Christopher Calderon. Site by Marginalized in Mind.