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Ann Veronica Janssens

After studying art history in England, Ann Veronica Janssens attended the La Cambre National School of Visual Arts, in Brussels. Since the mid-1980s, she has been developing a body of work placed under the aegis of experimentation, at once visual and sensory, intended to destabilize our perception of space and make light no longer an instrument but an actual subject. Her early works, the “super spaces”, which are extensions of existing architecture, like the Villa Gillet in Lyon (1989), illustrate her desire to abolish the rift between inner and outer space, and make our perception of architecture more fluid, by way of the circulation of light, which the artist would be endlessly using in its different formal possibilities, through the use of transparent elements (glass) and reflecting elements (mirrors); this diffuse matter enabled her to confront light with colour, smoke and space.