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 builds tangled lattices enmeshed with soft biomorphic forms mended from a process of violent destruction. Foraging discarded fragments to form cocoon objects imbued with metaphor; subduing rage, fear, death, and sexuality. Materials are urgently assembled into embryonic structures; binding, stitching, entraping. Objects encapsulate her unconscious desire to 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.