So happy to host wonderful artist Ana Jotta in conversation with Martin Laborde and Alice Dusapin, in celebration of Peau D'Ana, published by Daisy: another conversation which lasted so long, a book had to be made.

Peau d'Ana est une conversation avec Ana Jotta réalisée par Alice Dusapin, Martin Laborde et Baptiste Pinteaux en janvier 2024, dans l'appartement lisboète qu'Ana Jotta occupe depuis plus de quarante ans. À travers l'histoire de ce lieu unique et celles des différentes maisons où elle vécut – à Tanger, Madère, au Brésil et dans la campagne portugaise – Ana Jotta nous laisse avec malice et par rebonds revisiter des morceaux de son existence.

In Peau d'Ana, Ana Jotta discusses her childhood, her work as an actress and set designer, her first exhibitions in the mid-1980s, and her life in the studio. She talks about the importance of pleasure and frustration, her love of painting and literature, and the role of the irrational in her work. She shares her dislike of families, her friendships with artists and other animals, and the detours necessary for finding, and preserving, the energy essential for work… and for sleep. She disarms with the precision of her words, which describe a solitary, demanding, and profoundly vivid existence where mediocrity has no place. The interview, published in French and English, is accompanied by some sixty previously unpublished photographs and documents.

EN // FR bilingual book =  bilingual event :)

Ana Jotta (born 1946 in Lisbon, Portugal)'s output is one of the most singular art practices of the European art scene. Her work frees itself from any identifiable style, rejecting the very notion of signature, with a biting irony and an intelligent use of space and assemblage.