Lotte Janowski (b. 1986 Boston, USA) builds anthropomorphic fetish objects with encoded abstraction and alchemical anxiety. Her practice is grounded in excavation of chthonic memory through repetition, obsession, and ritual. Extracting from mythology and archetypes; she synthesizes amalgamated stitched forms. Working in fibers, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance; she hybridizes slavic paganism, deity worship, spirit possession, poppet making. Sculptures are embryonic: imbued with metaphor; subjugating abandonment, rage, fear, loneliness, death and sexuality through nested binding. Mirrored images prevail throughout acting as secret pictographs and invoking the magic symbolism of thread. Objects encapsulate unconscious desires, while being simultaneously cathartic and deeply superstitious.


Janowski holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has exhibited nationally including Glitch Gallery, Soma Gallery, Visualize Somerville, TEDX, BusStop Gallery, Red Door Studio, Lightning in a Bottle, Eclipse, and Meow Wolf Denver. Janowski has exhibited and performed internationally at Concordia Sculpture Museum in Enschede, Netherlands.