Tree Within 2021 - 2025

Feb 20
1 min read

Updated: Feb 23

Janne Reuss’s inner landscapes are like photographic x-rays that explore a complex map of human existence. Through the metaphor of the tree she inquires how experiences of home and place are stored and imprinted inside of us. She began exploring this concept of home and the idea of the family tree as a portal to a personal cosmos in her art: How do we access our inner memories? How do we try to hold on to, erase or reinvent them? Which events are so profound that they define us for the rest of our lives? “The process of remembering is like traversing through a dense forest in search of insight. Through the overlapping, layering and overpainting of my fragmented images, I’m trying to recreate this intricate experience”. The resulting imaginary landscapes express Reuss’s recurring childhoods dream of escaping into a secret garden to find solace. They are intimate and personal meditations of life; a silent retreat outside becomes inside and inside becomes outside.