Activity Exuvies

Janna Yotte specializes in collage, placing botanical books, obsolete medical specs and trendy fashion magazines under her scalpel. An expert in extracting specimens, limbs, organs and other living things (in whole or in part), she reassembles pieces into improbable, natural sets, where strangeness does not affect their beauty. Tempering disproportion and surrealism with meticulous découpage and thematic, geometric coherence, the compositions contrast on several levels: they seem fragile, though their presence is imposing; they are delicate and refined, yet shameless, even disturbing. The compositions raise questions, although we are quick to admire and accept them as they reveal themselves to us. Their contradictory forces give each work a disarming but reassuring familiarity, just like (human) nature.