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. Working in fibers, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance; she hybridizes slavic paganism, deity worship, spirit possession, poppet making. She weaves regenerative amalgamate forms invoking the magic symbolism of thread. Sculptures are embryonic: subjugating rage, abandonment, fear, loneliness, death and sexuality through nested binding. Mirrored images act as secret pictographs. Objects encapsulate unconscious desire for atonement, attrition, and repair; while being simultaneously cathartic and deeply superstitious.


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