Johanna Kotlaris: Jessica Jessica Jessica

The publication Jessica Jessica Jessica contains texts that Johanna Kotlaris has written for various contexts over the last six years. She connects texts through a narrative framework that she writes from a fictional first-person perspective. These are letters that she writes to Jessica and serve, among other things, to link various texts together. Jessica is an empty Instagram profile (0 followers, 0 following and no posts) that has been meticulously tracking Johanna’s activity on the same platform for some time. Since it is not clear who Jessica is, she becomes a projection screen for ever-changing people. The imaginary relationship with Jessica thus changes in the course of the writing: from curiosity to longing, indifference to discomfort at being constantly observed. At the same time, Johanna Kotlaris confides in Jessica and contextualizes the texts written in the past and newly compiled in this book. The result is a narrative that fluctuates between reality and fiction and continues to reflect on the nature of interpersonal relationships, analyzing, examining and testing them and thus constantly laying out new orders.”