May 2021
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
Antoine Janot
ARTIST STATEMENT
After graduating as an audiovisual technician in 2010, I deepened my cinematic studies with a masters degree in Cinema at the University of La Sorbonne. I co-produced an independent documentary (The Sleep of the Crowd, 2013) and directed several experimental short films, including Electrical Bodies (2019), The Fog People (2016), which have been selected in various festivals around the world and won the Best experimental film at the Bucharest Short Film Festival, as well as Lullaby for 17 Skyscrapers, 192 Buildings and 13,851 Inhabitants (2016), which have been broadcasted on French television. I am currently working on my first fiction feature film, La Marche funèbre, a social drama produced by Les Valseurs.
My versatile practice combines photography, painting and writing. My photographic series include The house with no address, which portrays homeless people’s attempt to create a sense of privacy in public spaces, and The Colors of Time, presenting abstract compositions that appeared on tombstones over time. My most recent series, Without colors, presents the daily struggle of people living with albinism in West Africa. My photographic work has been exhibited in various art centers around Europe and America, such as the Modern Art Museum in Erevan (Armenia), the Strasbourg Convention Center (France), the CROUS gallery (Paris), or the White Night Festival (Minneapolis).
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
Antoine Janot
ARTIST STATEMENT
After graduating as an audiovisual technician in 2010, I deepened my cinematic studies with a masters degree in Cinema at the University of La Sorbonne. I co-produced an independent documentary (The Sleep of the Crowd, 2013) and directed several experimental short films, including Electrical Bodies (2019), The Fog People (2016), which have been selected in various festivals around the world and won the Best experimental film at the Bucharest Short Film Festival, as well as Lullaby for 17 Skyscrapers, 192 Buildings and 13,851 Inhabitants (2016), which have been broadcasted on French television. I am currently working on my first fiction feature film, La Marche funèbre, a social drama produced by Les Valseurs.
My versatile practice combines photography, painting and writing. My photographic series include The house with no address, which portrays homeless people’s attempt to create a sense of privacy in public spaces, and The Colors of Time, presenting abstract compositions that appeared on tombstones over time. My most recent series, Without colors, presents the daily struggle of people living with albinism in West Africa. My photographic work has been exhibited in various art centers around Europe and America, such as the Modern Art Museum in Erevan (Armenia), the Strasbourg Convention Center (France), the CROUS gallery (Paris), or the White Night Festival (Minneapolis).
Antoine Janot is a 32 years old artist living between Paris and Montreal, working with different mediums such as painting, cinema, literature and photography.
In the last three years, Antoine Janot has also co-founded two NGOs: Les Hôtels Solidaires which distributes food and sanitary products to the needy, and was awarded Paris’ town hall’s Social Economy prize in 2019, as well as the international NGO NOW which aims to empower oppressed minorities around the world.
In the last three years, Antoine Janot has also co-founded two NGOs: Les Hôtels Solidaires which distributes food and sanitary products to the needy, and was awarded Paris’ town hall’s Social Economy prize in 2019, as well as the international NGO NOW which aims to empower oppressed minorities around the world.
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