JANNAT
ALAM

Jannat Alam (b.1997, British Bangladeshi) is a London based artist working across painting, photography and performative installation.

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Her practice engages with the unstable boundaries between memory, space and the body. Working with found materials, building components, branches and weighted objects, she constructs environments that either rest or press against architectural structures in overlooked spaces. These installations often demand physical navigation, asking the viewer to crouch, climb or crawl, echoing the adjustments we make in response to emotional weight or unseen thresholds. Her constructions question how these are held, supported or suspended. She positions her works as fragmented shelters shaped by a need to withhold and disclose at the same time.

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Drawing plays an ongoing role in her process, as does repetition, used as a way to witness rather than resolve. Her installations often emerge through intuitive adjustments, material testing and calibration. With a background in architecture and experience in surveying, Jannat approaches space as something negotiated rather than given. Each element, material, gesture, placement, carries its own quiet tension. The work is grounded in a belief in the universe as a participatory universe, where the viewer, structures and images are never static but always in relation.

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Her site-based works often take the form of guerrilla installations, temporary interventions in overlooked places such as empty buildings or public thresholds between use and disuse. These constructions emerge through problem solving, shaped by material limitations and the conditions of access. The process becomes a negotiation with time, weight, and permission and in their impermanence, they draw attention to ownership. They ask what kinds of structures shape the art world, and who those structures serve.

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Jannat holds a BA in Architecture (RIBA Part 1) from the University of Westminster and is currently completing an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. In 2025, she staged a series of guerrilla exhibitions across London, exhibited Switch in collaboration with artist In Hwa Choi, and presented her publication Witness at Offprint London at Tate Modern.