Ann Veronica Janssens voyage à Kyoto, 2018
Bamboo door curtain, goldleaf 23 3/4 carats
184 x 89 cm (72 1/2 x 35 1/8 in)
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
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. 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 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).
Janssens's works foreground the body’s perception of the world and itself in it. She often uses light, natural optical phenomena or glass as medium. Produced with great care, her works exude the impression of great simplicity yet create vivid experiences of the act of seeing, evoking a heightened awareness of the changeability and fleetingness of individual perceptions.
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).
Janssens's works foreground the body’s perception of the world and itself in it. She often uses light, natural optical phenomena or glass as medium. Produced with great care, her works exude the impression of great simplicity yet create vivid experiences of the act of seeing, evoking a heightened awareness of the changeability and fleetingness of individual perceptions.
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