Rest on Paper

Name: Rest on Paper - Ana Jotta
Brand: Keijiban
Price: 285.000000 EUR
Availability: InStock

Ana Jotta

2025

Set of two leporellos

Offset printing on 90 kg and 200 kg Araveal paper

Cover leporello: 15.2 x 21 cm (folded) / 60.6 x 21 cm (unfolded)
Inner leporello: 14 x 20.8 cm (folded) / 140 x 20.8 cm (unfolded)

Edition of 26 copies (all unique) and 4 artist’s proofs, titled, dated, numbered and signed by the artist

Price

€285.00

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The edition

Rest on Paper is a sequel to Un jour sans pain* est un jour sans soleil (2021), the first of the editions conceived by Ana Jotta in collaboration with Keijiban. Using the same format and structure of interlocking leporellos, the artist here engages in a celebration of the line—or rather, of all lines, however eccentric or fragile.

Shibui*, my friends!

“We took our time, but we got there” (The Ant Song)

Time has made its way, ridding me of so many images, so many trivial things, caught up like a “lining”.

You sum yourself up, you are lighter, more frugal, more at ease. No need to dress up your life, to replace it with stand-ins.

You feel more whole, more empty. Shibui is my life!

Travel light!

J., 06.06.2025

PS: Still, being rather irrational, I haven't overloaded my life...

*“Shibui” is a Japanese term with multiple meanings, ranging from “astringent” to “refined”.

The artist

Ana Jotta was born in 1946. She currently lives in Lisbon.

Since the 1980s, Ana Jotta has been developing a fascinating and undisciplined body of work. Although she likes to paint and draw, her favorite activity consists of collecting images, objects and words. Like some sort of visual DJ, she extracts, digests, mix, transforms and recontextualizes elements from various sources, popular and learned combined, saving them from oblivion while revitalizing them.

Her shows include embroidery, photographs, wallpapers, collages and assemblages, all elements crafted and displayed in such a way that the artist (her hand, her ego, her “style”) seems to play hide-and-seek with the viewers. Indeed, through her works, Ana Jotta invites us to engage in playful and insightful explorations of not only our visual culture and art history, but also her secretive and exuberant mind.

One of Portugal’s most prominent artists, she has had retrospective exhibitions at the Museu de Serralves (Porto) in 2005 and Culturgest (Lisbon) in 2014. She has also gained international recognition through major shows in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, UK, USA, etc.

Ana Jotta is represented by Miguel Nabinho Gallery (Lisbon), ProjecteSD (Barcelona), and greengrassi (London).

The exhibition