Hotel Motel X Fanny-Jane
Collaboration
HOTELMOTEL X FANNY-JANE
Our new project in collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Fanny-Jane: our taco bags and sneakers, hand painted in liquid rubber. Special edition available for a limited time. Presale from November 4, 2021.
It all started with an exchange of skills & talent: sneakers for tattoos. The parallels in the creation process inspired us to create this texture-filled collaboration that awakens the sense of touch.
Fanny-Jane
Fanny-Jane is a multi-disciplinary artist. Highly influenced by her work as a tattoo artist, a neon maker and her passion for lights of all genres, Fanny-Jane combines these elements to create sculptural experiences. Instead of using light to highlight a colour or a shape, she uses the light as the shape and the colour. Using different materials like: fibres, found objects and recycled plastic, the artist focuses on the lines and shapes of the light and how the material can affect or react surprisingly with its movement.
The goal of this scientific and artistic endeavor is to help the viewer be present in the moment, to feel empathy towards the objects presented and to make them curious. The process is very important and starts with care. Caring about objects or material, seeing the interesting aspects they reflect onto the world and combining them together to create a magical experience people can relate to. Most of her works are a request to step away from intellect, an invitation to soak in their intuition, even if it is to intellectualize it afterwards.
Melon
Say hi to Fanny-Jane’s rescued dog Melon. She follow her everywhere she goes and welcome everybody with a big smile. She comes at the studio and was part of our creation process so we decided to name one of Fanny-Jane’s pattern in her honour. The white cloudy shapes represents well all her softness and sweetness.
Q&A with Fanny-Jane:
How do you describe this micro-series of bags and sneakers?
A fluid and liberated conversation between our three desires, my love for your brand and your openness to my practice.
What drives you to diversify your practice?
The desire to associate myself and my practice with people and their practices, as a way that creates a positive impact on mine.
What is your inspiration for these patterns?
My tattoos, chance and everything that comes tennously touches on the organic.
What did you like about this collaboration? Did you learn new things?
Everything. Especially the “hands on” process. Rubber can become an addiction.
What do you put in your taco bag? Where are you going with your sneakers?
I put the essentials in the Taco and I go EVERYWHERE with my sneakers since they are incredibly comfortable and I don't have to change my shoes!
Tattoo Practice
Fanny-Jane has been tattooing for almost ten years now. Her work is constantly evolving and she is particularly fond of "free hand", which means that she tattoos the illustration directly on the skin instead of the client choosing an illustration from her collection. She uses different needles and techniques to achieve a range of textures: line, dotted, fill. She explores and discovers forms with repetition to create new forms, sometimes abstract and sometimes figurative, while leaving free space for interpretation.
Fanny-Jane X Marmod8
At the beginning of 2021, the association between the jeweler Marie-Maude Brunet and Fanny-Jane was born out of mutual appreciation, each being fascinated by the meticulous practice of the other.
Their collaboration leads them into sculptural explorations. Handcrafted, their jewelry comes to life in wax and exploration. This results in pieces with organic and fluid shapes, influenced by the environment and the imagination. They play on the material's potential, creating in silver textures that are sometimes raw, sometimes refined, a reflection of the natural materials from which they are inspired.
In their respective practices, the approach of the two artists is parallel. Marie-Maude's jewelry and Fanny-Jane's tattoos rely on harmony between the work and the wearer.
Neons
The light and the atmosphere it projects have always fascinated Fanny-Jane. She perceives neon as an extremely warm medium. Nothing is more seductive than creating a light that collaborates and dialogues directly with the space. It is a visual echo of "a big mood".
The process: an idea, a movement, an error, an intervention, a surprise, an echo strangely similar to the initial idea but with greater significance.
