Ann Veronica Janssens

Ann Veronica Janssens is a notable visual artist who has received worldwide recognition for her light-centred work. Janssens initial foray into art was inspired by her underlying fascination with reality and perception – she emphasises the fragility of human perception and often uses themes such as light distribution, colour radiance and surface types (translucent or reflective) as a means of highlighting the ever-changing perception of time and space. 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; 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. (Artist website)