Category: everyday

A tender visual diary spanning ten years, offering glimpses into the artist’s everyday life through drawings inspired by nature, gardening, and her close-knit community.

Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck has been drawing in sketchbooks for as long as she can remember, in the manner of a diary to which she confides her everyday life. A daily practice that mirrors the tender care she gives to her garden, a vibrant place that plays an essential role in her life and artistic practice.

In these sketchbooks, shapes and colours intermingle in a delicate and joyful harmony. It’s her intimate world that Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck reveals in her drawings, many of which are created en plein-air in just a few minutes. The simplicity of grey pencil strokes meets field flowers held in one hand and where familiar faces meet small animals, like Lemon, the canary with whom she lives.

To delve into ten years of notebooks, kept from 2014 to 2024, is to encounter the abundant and multifaceted work of an artist who invites us to observe the ordinary with an insatiable appetite.

An in-depth conversation between Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck and Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi completes the selection of drawings.

Like a gentle window into the play of emotions, Little Passing Thoughts is filled with drawings to meditate, escape, or simply smile.

Orfeo Tagiuri scribbles day and night on a small notebook. He tears away some of the drawings, to throw in the bin because they’re not good enough, to give away to friends — to have a laugh or to remember a moment — or to sell to a stranger who shared the exact same feeling or thought, for what Orfeo draws with a black pen are universal emotions. This pocket-sized book, compiling over 350 drawings, is meant to be carried everywhere and opened just when one needs to take a break, get inspired, and breathe.

“Each of these drawings is fished out from the river of little passing thoughts. I don’t know where they come from but sometimes I take the time to gently scoop them up and set them down. They are a great joy, relief and meditation to make. I hope you can feel that” — Orfeo Tagiuri

A striking collection of still frames from Spanish artist Cintia Tortosa Santisteban’s daily video recordings, capturing the life of a rice field and its visitors—observed from the fifth floor of her balcony in Japan.

Everyday, Cintia Tortosa Santisteban films from the balcony of her small fifth-floor Japanese apartment—it’s like a ritual. Below, a rice field unfolds along with the comings and goings of passersby, farmers, and children. On foot, by bike, or by car. Cintia observes this daily life as though it were a series, made up of fleeting and unique moments that reveal the hidden details of days that follow one another without ever being the same.

Since 2021, Cintia has been collecting videos of this landscape she watches over. From these recordings, she has created still frames that capture the changing seasons, shifting colours, and recurring figures who pass along the rice field—figures you think you recognize without knowing their stories.

Screenshots from a series of videos about a rice field and its surroundings, Cintia Tortosa Santisteban’s first book, features around a hundred images selected from an archive of over a thousand videos. It offers a small window into the theater of everyday life.

Table ! is Chose Commune’s first children’s book — where every meal becomes a story for children and adults alike.

Table ! is the very first children’s book published by Chose Commune, offering a joyful dual reading experience for both children and adults.

Set in the vibrant illustrated world of Maggie Cowles, every meal becomes a celebration. Food is more than something we eat — it is memory, comfort, sharing, and storytelling. As the pages turn, children are encouraged to search for a small hidden element within the illustrations, transforming reading into a playful visual game. For adults, these warm and lively scenes echo the feeling of gathering around food: spontaneous meals, shared laughter, and the memories that quietly take shape while cooking together.

Coco Capitan continues her exploration of writing as a vital gesture. Words on Paper brings together her ironic and intimate aphorisms — delicate fragments of fleeting thoughts.

Words on Paper presents itself as the follow-up to If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes (2019). This new book brings together Coco Capitán’s recent notes, still tinged with irony and sometimes accompanied by sketches. Every day, she records her words, moods, questions, and impressions on a variety of surfaces, with an almost compulsive spontaneity.

Caught in the moment or crafted as true poems, her aphorisms appear as well on a green-checked napkin as on the pristine page of a notebook. The words are scribbled, crossed out, circled, underlined, and sometimes accompanied by a date or heading, revealing the time and place of their creation.

Unlike If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes, Words on Paper includes full-colour pages showing the original surfaces from which these writings emerged, offering the reader an immersive glimpse into the artist’s creative process.

In this collection of stories scribbled on paper, Coco Capitán captures her spontaneous thoughts. Her handwritten typography, featuring inverted letters, crossings-out, and annotations, takes shape in a world tinged with humor and irony.

“If you’ve seen it all, close your eyes” presents extracts from a decade of artist Coco Capitán’s handwritten notebooks. Coco Capitán has always scribbled down her thoughts – everywhere, all the time – often on scraps of paper that have filled notebook after notebook. From her first day in London in 2010 until now, and as she travels the world on photography assignments, Coco Capitán’s writings grant an insight into her free and instinctive creative process. Playful aphorisms and short poems address an array of issues with hints of humour and irony. She combines the serious with the mundane as she shares in her first text-based book social, metaphorical or sentimental moments with her witty tone and distinctive hand.