Lotte Janowski (b. 1986 Boston, USA) builds anthropomorphic fetish objects with encoded abstraction and alchemical anxiety. Her practice is grounded excavation of chthonic memory through repetition, obsession, and ritual. Objects hybridize aspects of slavic paganism, deity worship, possession trance, poppets, and soul vases. Mirrored patterns create lattices that act as secret pictographs, invoking the magic symbolism of thread. Sculptures are embryonic: imbued with metaphor; subduing abandonment, rage, fear, loneliness, death and sexuality through nested binding. Fragments, cleaved and stitched, enact a violent process of destruction and creation, mending; a mirror of the psychological landscape. Objects encapsulate the unconscious desire for punishment, self-mortification, atonement and attrition; 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, Meow Wolf Denver. Janowski has exhibited and performed internationally at Concordia Sculpture Museum in Enschede, Netherlands.