Jean-Baptiste Janisset
Born in 1990
lives and works in Marseille and Avignon
With his wandering, poetic gaze, Jean-Baptiste Janisset has for several years been exploring visible and invisible worlds in which art intersects with magic, the occult and alchemy. Moving through diverse territories, he seeks out a spiritual heritage embodied in churches, cemeteries and the many forms of funerary art whose bas-relief decorations combine religious and symbolic motifs, vegetal forms and human figures. In doing so, he follows paths that run counter to established cartographies, drawing strength from ancient and mystical symbols, navigating between chance encounters and risk-taking, and gradually tracing an itinerary that resonates with the cycles of life.
—Excerpt from Marianne Derrien, CELUI QUI NAVIGUE AUX ÉTOILES, 2022.
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