Ann Veronica Janssens: Hot Pink Turquoise

“I think that sometimes you have to erase reality - erase what's visible - in order to see something else. To make the invisible visible in fact.” - Ann Veronica Janssens

At the beginning of 2020, Ann Veronica Janssens held her first large-scale solo exhibition in the Nordic region, Hot Pink Turquoise, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. From works of the 1990s to more recent pieces, the exhibition spanned nearly 30 years of the artist’s creative career, and at the same time presented new works made for this exhibition.

Influenced by the Light and Space movement, Ann Veronica Janssens develops works using various scientific media: artificial fog, glass, liquids, light, and more. Her works often form a close connection with viewers; as people move, the angle of vision changes, and the appearance of the work also changes. The artist regards the viewer as a part of the work. In the exhibition, in addition to the fog and glass series, the 2001 work Bike invited visitors to ride a bicycle in the gallery space; during the process, the rims made of aluminum plates reflected natural light, creating moving cones of light and reflecting the surrounding environment.