In recent years, Guillaume Janot’s practice and plastic concerns have been distinguished in particular by an interest in the landscapes of amusement parks and fictitious environments, relocated to the four corners of the world (…)
Disneyland, the Sydney Botanical Garden, the Vincennes Zoo become the pretexts and the setting for a journey that outlines a paradoxical journey through the universe of standardized imagery. By empowering the framing, Guillaume Janot exploits the artificial character of these reconstituted generic places, by overplaying the fictitious element and extending its phantasmic springs. Between recognition of references and loss of reference points, the viewer constantly oscillates in the face of the doubt created as to the nature of the image and the identity of the place being viewed.