J A N C A
JANCA is a French-Colombian photographer and visual artist.
Her black and white photography has a theatrical character.
JANCA imagines, constructs, composes and directs each scene.
Her creative process begins with a social situation she questions and with the search for an original way to address it. This leads to research, whose findings are transformed into a visual construction. JANCA is the author and composer of her visual creations.
Her work unfolds through two visual universes. In her staged portrait creations — La Bella y la Bestia, Machos, historias de Nenas and Silencios / Silences — she develops a ROCOCO language, characterized by the richness and multiplicity of visual elements.
In Visiones, Gotas de Sueño and CUBE for PEACE, she develops a MINIMALIST language.
In the first two, the nude body, isolated against black backgrounds, becomes form, line, volume, light and movement, reaching an almost abstract dimension.
The ephemeral installation CUBE for PEACE is a geometric structure measuring 6 meters on each side and 3.5 meters in height, composed of 600 white balloons. It becomes a space for reflection on how we manage our emotions and our lives when we have experienced violence.
The work does not seek to offer an answer to violence. Rather, it proposes a space and a gesture that allow each person to question what they do with what they have experienced, what they continue to carry with them, and what they might choose to leave behind, in order to stop living as a victim.
Two different visual languages, ROCOCO and MINIMALIST, one same way of creating: researching, imagining, constructing and directing.