![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 5](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/bcf4ebf49ac97b0b17ac5b50496ed6cbf6d0c052-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Janas' paintings evoke an imagined world that spans the realms of nightmare and dream, interior and exterior, carnal and cerebral. Citing the Minotaur - one of the earliest instances of bestiality - Janas darkly and ironically refers to the vulnerability of the body and his contradictory feelings of pride and disgust about sexuality and masculinity.
Works
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 5](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/bcf4ebf49ac97b0b17ac5b50496ed6cbf6d0c052-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 7](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/ea62a351876425cd22ef89fa0ca8a1247f440318-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Janas 7 , 2013
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 3/St. Blaise](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/49383f7d2da468f5928060f503e25a41abcc5a4e-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Janas 3/St. Blaise, 2012
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 2/Lamp](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/ace5741ee668b2d4518575433dce2a344e3788c2-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Janas 2/Lamp, 2012
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 1](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/97c173cbc82d9fc7d5caa6593f145ad526e6c116-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Janas 1, 1978
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 8](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/d814c7b625b998e8f6a7b40c313715ec6f61d5a9-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Janas 8 , 2013
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 6](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/fbfe5dc3aa297124f27e7463af650099454a4ed4-1000x1500.jpg?w=800)
Janas 6 , 2013
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 4/Minotaur](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/4d34baf224149c0e88f4fcc56a9a86d63d50bd80-1500x1000.jpg?w=800)
Janas 4/Minotaur, 2013
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Janas 9](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/29912ab2fa25545b19370204b63cdc2b3424c98c-1500x1000.jpg?w=800)