JANCA is a French-Colombian photographer and visual artist. Her photography has a theatrical character. JANCA imagines, constructs, composes and directs each scene.

Her creative process begins with a social situation she questions and with the search for an original way to address it. This leads to research, whose findings are transformed into a visual construction. JANCA is the author and composer of her visual creations.

Her work unfolds through two visual universes. In her staged portrait creations — La Bella y la Bestia, Machos, historias de Nenas and Silencios / Silences — she develops a ROCOCO language, characterized by the richness and multiplicity of visual elements.

In Visiones, Gotas de Sueño and Cubo por la Paz, she develops a MINIMALIST language. In the first two, the nude body, isolated against black backgrounds, becomes form, line, volume, light and movement, reaching an almost abstract dimension. In Cubo por la Paz, a geometric structure measuring 6 meters on each side and 3.5 meters in height—composed of 600 white balloons—becomes a space for reflection on how we manage our emotions and our lives after falling victim to violence. The work does not aim to offer an answer to violence; rather, it proposes a space and a gesture that allow each person to ask themselves what they do with their lived experiences, what they continue to carry with them, and what they might choose to leave behind in order to stop living as a victim.

Two different visual languages, ROCOCO and MINIMALIST, one same way of creating: researching, imagining, constructing and directing.