Embodied Storytelling
Johanna Kepler’s visual art practice extends her interdisciplinary approach to storytelling, using drawing, installation, and mixed media to explore memory, identity, and cultural hybridity. Rooted in her weaving methodology, her visual work often serves as an entry point into embodied exploration, translating internal landscapes and lived experiences into visual form. From 2022 to 2025, she co-founded Digital Drip, a digital fashion house that explored the intersection of fashion, technology, and virtual worlds, producing innovative projects including a digital fashion event at Art Basel Miami. This interdisciplinary approach culminates in Woven Between Worlds, an immersive gallery installation that brings together textiles, video, and over 100 oral histories to create a living archive of diaspora, memory, and belonging. Through her visual art, Kepler creates spaces that invite viewers to engage with layered narratives of selfhood, bridging personal and collective histories across cultures and time.
Woven Between Worlds
Woven Between Worlds is an immersive gallery installation by Johanna Kepler that explores identity, memory, and cultural hybridity through her weaving methodology. Rooted in her experience as a transnational Guatemalan adoptee, the installation brings together visual art, spatial design, and storytelling to create a living archive of personal and collective histories. The gallery features layered works including drawings, digital media, and over one hundred recorded interviews with Guatemalan adoptees and members of the diaspora, inviting audiences to move through a landscape of memory, displacement, and reconnection. Through this interdisciplinary environment, Woven Between Worlds positions art as a site of cultural preservation and healing, offering a space to reflect on what it means to live between worlds and reweave one’s sense of belonging.
