Transdisciplinary artist

Johanna Cabon is a French artist of Breton origin whose practice weaves together sculpture and words. Rooted in a landscape of superstition and memory, her work draws inspiration from tradition, particularly the massive wooden furniture of Brittany, often carved and sometimes studded with nails, where each nail once signified wealth. These nails were absent in her family. By reclaiming them in her work, she transforms tradition into a language of repair.

Her sculptures in wood and metal are shaped through hammering. Her practice is loud, imperfect and physical. Each nail becomes both wound and healing, an intimate exorcism of silence, grief, and trauma. The act of making is at once ritual and affirmation of existence, inscribing the body’s force into matter.

From this rhythm also arises poetry. As a companion to her sculptures, it carries their symbols into words. Together, sculpture and writing form two voices of a single practice: a search for healing, resilience, and liberation.

Her work unfolds as a series of contemporary icons. Through wood, metal, and words, she builds spaces of remembrance, noise, and release.