Ann Veronica Janssens: Illuminating the Masses

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Who? Brussels-based artist Ann Veronica Janssens’ practice is concerned primarily with light, colour, and perception. Janssens makes very few art objects. Instead, her work attempts to escape the ‘tyranny of objects’ and what she describes as their ‘overbearing materiality’. Since the late 1990s, Janssens has filled spaces with washes of coloured light or ‘mist sculptures’: dense, illuminated clouds of vapour that render surroundings unfamiliar and sensory…