Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck’s (b.1990, France) and Jatinder Singh Durhailay’s (b.1988, England) exhibition encompasses works from their respective oeuvres of the years 2014-2022.

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The parallels in their works have been growing organically and tangibly: by sharing their lives, studio spaces and colour palettes, and by sourcing and at times making natural stone pigments, vegetable dyes and papers together in their daily and on their frequent travels through England, France, India, and Japan. Based in rural England, they move fluidly between diverse visual narratives, material cultures and practices. Their work is shaped particularly by Johanna’s childhood in rural Alsace and Jatinder’s Indian Sikh heritage. Together, their independent practices evolve a circuitous new poetry.

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Blending myths and contemporary culture, Jatinder’s portrayal of the world that surrounds us is humorous, heroic and poignant. While he paints intricate and observant portraits and sceneries in the style of Indian Mughal miniature painting — spanning painterly subjects from the Sikh community to Bruce Lee — Johanna’s practice evokes a polyphonous garden. She looks at plants as models for the colours, materials and organic shapes of her works. In her collages, paintings, drawings, clay sculptures, textile works, films, and photographs, Johanna explores the poetics of space and memory, and plays with their correlations.

Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck and Jatinder Singh Durhailay look closely at the communities and companion species that surround them, and root themselves in their flourishing relations. Time is how you spend your love; this sentiment permeates the exhibition like a rāga.* 

* A rāga (Sanskrit for 'colouring', or 'dyeing') is a melodic framework for improvisation and a central feature in Indian classical music.