Credit: Alex Tran
Selected artworks from Fleshed out / Le fruit de mes entrailles, a solo exhibition presented at Institut National d’art contemporain, in October of 2022.
Cutting, moving, gluing. Repeating, again and again, with attention and care. To observe the result of your labour, as one observes their reflection in the mirror. Seeing something new. Meeting yourself once more.
In the individual exhibition Fleshed out / Le fruit des mes entrailles, Janna Yotte showcases her abandoned skins: collages inspired by her life’s most impactful moments. In these pieces, the artist forms new beings with images taken from medical and biology volumes. The human body reveals its history in each organ; the snake represents life’s twists and turns, causing suffering and miracles; the nourishing or poisonous mushroom, bringer of dreams, emerges from forgotten matter. With this exhibition, the artist goes beyond the creation of new bodies to live, experience and feel them. Like her pieces, the artist is coming to the end of a long transformation cycle; the pieces assembled here revealing the evolution of the artist’s identity.
For inquiries or acquisition about this series, please reach out at galerie@institut-national.com
Ceci est ma chair — Collage and embroidery on wood, 36”x60”, 2022
À chacun sa pudeur — Collage and embroidery on wood, 36”x60”, 2022
Not rough enough — Collage and embroidery on wood, 36”x60”, 2022
Multidimensional Being — Collage on wood, 30”x60”, 2022
I’m not going anywhere — Collage on wood, 36”x60”, 2022
I will rise again — Collage and embroidery on wood, 36”x48”, 2022
Coexister — Collage on wood, 36”x60”, 2022
Je désire encore ses abats — Collage on wood, 36”x60”, 2022
Hypnotized by such beautiful lies — Collage, embroidery and ink on paper, 31”x22”, 2022
A breath for each small death — Collage and ink on paper, 31”x22”, 2022
L’infection inachevée — Collage and embroidery on wood, 30”x48”, 2022
Si tes plaies se déploient — Collage on wood, 40”x62”, 2022
M’ouvrir — Collage and embroidery on wood, 30”x48”, 2022
Se suffire — Collage and embroidery on wood, 30”x48”, 2022