Discover the contemporary work of Jo_LNA

Jo-LNA, based in Lyon.

I paint mainly with use watercolor and work on details with a felt-tip pen/marker.

I find my inspirations in what fascinates me and moves me, whether it's through through my emotions, music, the cultures of this world.

I also give an important place to; the representation of women, in all their diversity. My works oscillate between journeys and reveries, cosmic and plant atmospheres.

I am not attached to labels, I am self-taught and outside the world of art.

"- So you reinvented everything?

- Yes, but everyone can invent. This is not a specialty. which is unique to me."

Violet Parra, Chilean singer and artist.

The Latin American artistic universe of the 19th and 20th centuries is an important element of my identity. and by extension in  my relationship to art. With artists like Elena Izcue, Frida Kahlo, Violeta Parra. Mexican and Chilean muralist movements such as Diego Rivera, José Venturelli, or the Ramona Parra Brigade. With a will à through their works to deconstruct society, particularly on subjects arising from neocolonialism.

A cultural heritage which is important in the symbolism of some of my works. Both in the translation of my report to representation represents "identity" "Latin-American", the fruit of different overlapping processes of "transculturations". Importance also in my relationship to the world and my particular interest in foreign cultures and indigenous peoples of other continents, which I also seek to understand. value at through my paintings.

Another element which arises from this neo-colonial and "Western-centric" deconstruction, is the transcription of the symbols and/or narratives of different  ;non-Western cosmologies. Mainly Mapuche, Buddhist and Hindu.

Finally I also leave room for one side less intellectualized; and intelligible. Through paintings in which I try to convey my emotion and my interiority.