In Janske: Guitar, Jan Adriaans’ interest for interior architecture and its potential narrative, leads to the exploration of a private space - the attic of his childhood dwelling, where his mother, Janske, rehearses with an electric guitar.
Along with the close-up on Janske’s face, while she carefully pinches the strings, the camera wanders around the room, framing details in the surrounding space. In parallel to the sound that propagates in the house, the architecture ends up being incorporated in the shooting. With slow camera movements, Adriaans lingers on details of furniture and everyday objects, and juxtaposes these views to Janske’s performance, that is set in the very place where the artist used to rehearse the electric guitar as a teenager. Therefore, Janske’s performance is also the re-enactment of a memory. The space is therefore reshaped by two distortions, that of music and the individual memory of the artist. In this way, reality becomes a raw material to create one more story, based on the editing of a real event. Federica Martini, freelance curator, Lausanne
