Authorship: Janaina Mello Landini

Authorship refers to the creator of a work of art, or the creator of the artistic concept(s) that that work explores. 

To elaborate on this I have chosen to look at the work of an artist and unpack what defines their unique creative voice.

Brazilian artist Janaina Mello Landini "studied architecture and later fine arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Fascinated by mathematics, logic, and architecture, (her) detailed paintings and textile works juxtapose the rigid logic of man-made structures with the wisdom of organic forms. Her paintings frequently take on the Fibonacci sequence and other patterns found in nature." (Source: https://www.artsy.net/artist/janaina-mello-landini)

Using nylon rope in a rainbow of colours, she makes installations inspired by the various networks and systems that fascinate her including tree roots, human anatomy and computer programming.

She "unbraids lengths of rope to create fibrous labyrinths that breach canvases’ edges and crawl from floor to ceiling. Including both sprawling site-specific installations and smaller pieces confined to a few dozen centimeters, the São Paulo-based artist’s body of work is broad. All of her projects, though, explore tension and space as they spread into arboreal forms or perfectly round networks." (Source: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/09/janaina-mello-landini-rope-artworks)

Her sources of inspiration, the mediums that she employs, her narrative and how she exhibits her makes are all consistent and this gives her a vivid, authentic and easily recognizable creative voice as an artist.