Rōt Rot Rôt

Rōt Rot Rôt evolved from Janina Fritz’s memory of the pink lighting used in the shop window of a butcher in her childhood neighborhood — a type of light designed to make raw meat look more appealing: less grey, more red.

For her contribution to Art Au Centre 17, two pink neon lights, a tiled ceramic floor and a drain become the central actors of the installation. „Violet 3“, radiating from mutated neon glass tubes, tints the vitrine in the same colour used for the purpose described above.

Janina Fritz is a visual artist based in Brussels and Bremen. Through creating sculptures and spatial environments, she engages with the relationship between the corporeal and the structures that enclose or interact with it.

By investigating hygienically designed, controlled surroundings that accommodate bodies in both public and domestic settings, she explores how built environments register, regulate, or reflect bodily presence — or absence — along with the traces they leave behind. The resulting works often appear as architectural fragments, reflecting on themes such as desire, intimacy, and isolation.