With his wandering poetic eye, Jean-Baptiste Janisset has for several years been exploring visible and invisible worlds that combine art with magic, the occult and alchemy. Surveying a wide range of territories, he sets out in search of a spiritual heritage made up of churches and cemeteries – all these funerary arts with bas-relief decorations combining religious or symbolic motifs, plants or human figures. To do this, he takes paths that go against the grain of any cartography, drawing strength from ancient and mystical symbols, taking opportunities and risks, and gradually tracing an itinerary that resonates with the cycles of life. From Abomey to Marseille, where he now lives, from Nantes to Dijon, then from Ajaccio to Algiers, via Paris, Bastia, Saint Étienne and many other towns, the artist is shaping a palimpsest territory over time.

— Marianne Derrien