Atelier 11 Open Studio
15h - 19h, 21 February, 2026
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
L'AiR Arts is pleased to invite you to the Atelier 11 Open Studio with artist Jana Visser, who will present her research and a work in progress.
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
L'AiR Arts is pleased to invite you to the Atelier 11 Open Studio with artist Jana Visser, who will present her research and a work in progress.
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Jana Visser (b. 1997) is a South African textile artist and handweaver based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Weaving as both an art-making method and its conceptual capabilities captivates her. Mediating between dualities of presence/absence, fullness/emptiness, active/passive, beginning/ending, as well as internal and external realities, Visser has no intention to juxtapose these notions against each other. Rather, she seeks a logic of reciprocity and becoming through the framework of her weaving practice. Grounding her practice in an openness to uncertainty, she navigates between controlling method and media, whilst considering and surrendering to the delicate relationships between matter, time and space.
During her residency at Atelier 11, Jana Visser continues her research into the mental space of weaving as a transcription of thought and inspiration – inspiration as the original breath or impulse for creation. Visser is especially intrigued by the phrasing: “conception of an idea”; as if ideas are “birthed” into the world as living threads of thought. Moreover, when ideating, contemplating or considering; one speaks of an “embryonic” phase, which strengthens the reference to the beginnings of a new lifeform; a breath of life. What would be the fastest way to make a mark? What would be the slowest way to make a surface? |
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Exploring the malleability of paper yarn and the ephemerality of charcoal dust, Visser contemplates the immediacy of a thought and the slowness of formulating it through the process of weaving. Perhaps these ruminations will materialise in the shape of seemingly silent yet receptive and textured surfaces that allow viewers to slowly perceive, and not rush towards finite conclusions.
