“voyage à Kyoto” consists of a gold-leaf covered vertical bamboo beaded curtain. While the gilded pearls of bamboo recall the traditional Japanese door curtains, the work is a metaphor for a rustle of light and plays on the combination of the seriality of minimalist aesthetics with the preciousness of the material. The work is a new development in a series of gilded blinds begun in 2007 that also comprises five variations of Venetian and Californian blinds. The series echoes the artist's early architectural interventions of glass panels covering the Persian blinds of a building (1995–2003). In addition, the work combines major themes of Ann Veronica Janssens's oeuvre: the work of art as window and visual phenomena created by slight alterations to the materiality of objects. The emphasis on the viewer's physical perception of themselves and the world evokes a vivid way of looking at the works.