Lotte Janowski creates sculptural figures that inhabit the space between ritual object, self-portrait, and speculative mythology. Constructed through textiles, soft sculpture, body adornment, and performance, these hybrid forms explore transformation as both a psychic and physical condition. The work draws from Slavic folk traditions, ceremonial costume, devotional craft, and the language of fetishistic ornamentation, merging them into anthropomorphic entities that appear simultaneously protective and unstable.

In this work, the body becomes obscured beneath an elaborate architecture of soft appendages, woven textures, and animalistic extensions. The figure resists fixed identity, functioning instead as a vessel for accumulated memory, anxiety, and desire. Feminized materials traditionally associated with domestic labor—fabric, tassels, stitching, and fiber—are transformed into excessive ceremonial armor, oscillating between seduction and defense, comfort and threat.

Janowski’s practice is rooted in repetition, accumulation, and ritualized making. Through obsessive construction and tactile excess, she creates emotionally charged biomorphic forms that embody fragmentation, survival, and metamorphosis. The resulting figures exist in a liminal state: part guardian, part relic, part apparition—offering a meditation on the instability of the body and the emotional residue carried within it. Objects encapsulate the unconscious desire to repair; while being simultaneously cathartic and deeply superstitious.

Janowski (b. 1986, Boston, MA) 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.