Ann Veronica Janssens

Montag, 30. Juli 1956

Ann Veronica Janssens is a Belgian contemporary visual artist born in 1956 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Since the late 1970s Ann Veronica Janssens develops an experimental work that emphasises site-specific installations and the use of intangible materials, such as light, sound or artificial mist, where the observer is confronted with the perception of the elusive. The immersive nature of her work is an invitation to ephemeral experiences, which are at times delirious or vertiginous, and lead to the loss of control or landmarks, generating a sentiment of visual, physical, temporal or psychological fragility. Ann Veronica Janssens’ work foregrounds the body’s perception of the world and itself in it. She often uses light, natural optical phenomena