Jannis Marwitz

Jannis Marwitz crafts a distinctive and perplexing visual landscape. His works perform a contemporary Comedia dell’arte — where cha- racters and settings bend and shift to equally shifting narratives. Dotted with citations from antiquity to the renaissance and beyond, Jannis Marwitz’s overwhelming visuality corresponds to a world that, paradoxically, becomes harder to grasp through the overa- bundance of images we encounter daily. Marwitz’s figures are malleable, his backdrops are undulating, and the moments he depicts seem to flicker and reconstitute themsel- ves in an ever changing flow.This openness prompts double takes and invites a continual reshuffing of understanding.