Janet Werner: Landscape With Legs presents portraits developed by collaging fashion magazine images before translating their misalignments and fractures into paint. Figures are staged within romanticized landscapes drawn from Munch, Friedrich, and Watteau — environments multiple times removed from reality, choreographed and staged. The title subverts art historical convention by giving figure and ground equal importance, conjuring an absurd moveable landscape that could walk away if it wished. Through undoing and fracturing spatial logic, Werner collapses multiple moments into single images that bear traces of contradiction, hesitation, and shifting subjectivity.
