Johanna Boccardo is a Miami-based visual artist whose practice moves fluidly across painting, textiles, and installation. Her work unfolds within The House of Uranian Esotericism, a living system where aesthetic precision, symbolic structure, and energetic ritual converge.
From paintings to rugs and grids, each creation is part of an ongoing quest to remain radically aligned with her own perception, pace, and process in a culture built on noise and acceleration.
Boccardo’s practice is not performative—it is architectural. Her world invites others into clarity, sovereignty, and sensual attunement, one transmission at a time.
Boccardo reframes weaving as a system of experimentation where process, material, and abstraction intersect.
For MDF 2025, Boccardo presents Altars of the Not-Yet-Known, a four-part textile portal created in collaboration with Odabashian. The project takes inspiration from the elemental forces of Air, Water, Fire, and Earth. Instead of direct symbolism, Boccardo renders each element through rhythm, movement, and energy.
Detail of Altars of the Not-Yet-Known. Each quadrant embodies elemental forces—Air, Water, Fire, and Earth—through rhythm, movement, and energy.
The resulting compositions are abstract but intentional, evoking the presence of forces that are both precise and intangible. Each quadrant stands as part of a greater altar, and together they generate a charged field that functions as both mirror and threshold—an architectural site where internal structures may rearrange in response to the environment. As visitors from different geographies enter, exchange, and eventually disperse, the altar remains—anchoring a space of potential that outlives the event itself.
The work functions as both mirror and threshold, anchoring a space of potential that extends beyond the fair.
With Altars of the Not-Yet-Known, Boccardo extends Odabashian’s century-long expertise into a new context, treating weaving as both a technical system and a spatial proposition. The work positions textile production as a site of experimentation where process, material, and abstraction intersect.
