A person with long dark hair sits on a chair on a stage with purple lighting, head down and finger raised, surrounded by abstract decorations. Audience silhouettes are visible in the foreground.
Janna Zhiri, IRM, La tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand, 2025. Crédit photo : Clélia Barthelon

Janna Zhiri

Artist

Janna Zhiri draws inspiration from literature, tales of friendship, love and illness to invent oral stories which she transforms into drawings, where everything blends together in scenes that are a mixture of dreams and fantasies.

Fascinated by dominant forms of storytelling, she seeks to rework their structure—amoral tales—to write TPG stories that invoke constant metamorphosis. Her narratives and settings serve as vehicles for storytelling, for making statements, and for entertaining, blending conviction, humour, and crude, caustic, disillusioned observations. The narrative world becomes open to digression, serving as a call to revolution through the heart.