Janssens’ own unique take on art sees her reject the use of objects – she feels objects to be useless in their materiality and instead creates installations such as ‘mist sculptures’, surrounding her viewers in clouds of multi-coloured, dense, thick smoke as a means of challenging their own sensory experiences and perceptions;
« My first « constructions », made during the mid-80s, were spatial extensions of existing architecture. These graftings at once formed and gave onto what I call « super spaces »»
Ann Veronica Janssens
this technique was famously used in her yellowbluepink exhibition at the Wellcome Collection. Janssens work, on the whole, is made for the individual as opposed to the masses – she knows that e
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Janssens’ own unique take on art sees her reject the use of objects – she feels objects to be useless in their materiality and instead creates installations such as ‘mist sculptures’, surrounding her viewers in clouds of multi-coloured, dense, thick smoke as a means of challenging their own sensory experiences and perceptions;
« My first « constructions », made during the mid-80s, were spatial extensions of existing architecture. These graftings at once formed and gave onto what I call « super spaces »»
Ann Veronica Janssens
this technique was famously used in her yellowbluepink exhibition at the Wellcome Collection. Janssens work, on the whole, is made for the individual as opposed to the masses – she knows that each person will have a different experience from her art, serving her purpose of challenging reality as we know it. (
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