Cloe Jancis

View from the group exhibition ‘Greetings, and Whatever Customarily Restores a Bond About to Break’, Kogo Gallery, Tartu, 2023. Curator: Brigit Arop. Photo: Marje Eelma

Cloe Jancis 'Apparition' (2023). Drawing in a display frame. View from the exhibition ‘Wishing Well’, Rüki Gallery, Viljandi, 2023. Photo: Cloe Jancis

View from the exhibition ‘Wishing Well’, Tallinn City Gallery, 2022. Curator: Siim Preiman. Photo: Paul Kuimet

Cloe Jancis ‘Face Inside a Mirror’ (2022). Part of the series ‘Mirror Portraits’. In series of 4. Print on film, mirror, tin, 60 × 50 cm. View from the exhibition ‘Wishing Well’, Tallinn City Gallery, 2022. Curator: Siim Preiman. Photo: Paul Kuimet

Cloe Jancis ‘Hand Mirror’ (2022). Part of the series ‘Hand Mirror’. In series of 7. Print on film, mirror, glass, epoxy, 14.6 × 7.1 × 0.76 cm. View from the exhibition ‘Wishing Well’, Tallinn City Gallery, 2022. Curator: Siim Preiman. Photo: Paul Kuimet

Cloe Jancis ‘Vanity’ (2022). Installation, textile, table made of mirrors, photo on a mirror. View from the exhibition ‘Wishing Well’, Tallinn City Gallery, 2022. Curator: Siim Preiman. Photo: Paul Kuimet

Cloe Jancis ‘Mirror Portrait IV’ (2022). Part of the series ‘Mirror Portraits’. In series of 4. Print on film, mirror, 60 × 40 cm. View from the exhibition ‘Wishing Well’, Tallinn City Gallery, 2022. Curator: Siim Preiman. Photo: Cloe Jancis

Cloe Jancis ‘The Ritual’ (2022). HD video, sound, 9’ 52’’. View from the exhibition ‘Wishing Well’, Tallinn City Gallery, 2022. Curator: Siim Preiman. Photo: Paul Kuimet

Cloe Jancis (1992) is an artist working in the media of photography, video and installation. She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a bachelor’s degree in photography (2018) and is currently studying in the master’s programme of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Jancis is fascinated by the social image and daily roles of women, and the myths and expectations related to these. In recent years, she has focused on objects and rituals associated with femininity. Her recent exhibitions include In front of the mirror, on a day full of enthusiasm, you put your mask on too heavily, it bites your skin with Sigrid Viir at the central exhibition Screen Age III: Still Life of the Riga Photography Biennial (2022), Between You and This at the Fictions Documentaires Festival in Carcassonne, France (2021), Exhibition as Conversation group exhibition at Tartu Art House (curator Hanna-Liis Kont, 2021) and Letters from a Foreign Mind group exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (curator Laura Toots, 2021).

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