
1301PE is pleased to announce its third solo exhibition with acclaimed Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens. For more than twenty years Janssens’s work has been widely recognized for her ability to challenge and experiment with the definition of perception.
In this exhibition Janssens will be exhibiting new works continuing her exploration into what she terms the ‘ungraspable’. Through her motifs of abstraction, mirroring, and light, Janssens deliberately displaces and transforms her specific materials.
“It’s a question of thresholds between two states of perception, between shadow and light, the defined and the undefined, silence and explosion; the threshold where the image reabsorbs itself.” – Ann Veronica Janssens
Janssens’s works – installations, sculptures, and modest interventions – are not monumental or permanent structures, but sensorial environments that engage the viewer in real-time lived experiences. Willing or not, the audience activates the work and vice versa allowing themselves to perceive and “interpret the meaning of his or her personal experience”.
Born in Folkestone, England in 1956, Janssens lives and works in Brussels. In 1999 Janssens represented Belgium at the 48th Venice Biennale. A selection of solo exhibitions include: FRAC Corse, Bonifacio, France; Serendipity, WIELS - Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium; Are you experienced?, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain; ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand; Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany; In the Absence of Light it is possible..., Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria; Rouge 106, Bleu 132, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; and 8’26” ,Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille, Marseille, France. Selected group exhibitions including:Fruits of Passion, Centre Pompidou in Paris, France; 8th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Ecstasy, Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles, CA;Universal Code: Art and Cosmology in the Information Age, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; Generalli Foundation, Austria; Eyes, Lies & Illusions, Hayward Gallery, England; Stimuli, Witte de With, Rotterdam.

















“My first «constructions», made during the mid-80s, were spatial extensions of existing architecture. These graftings at once formed and gave onto what I call «super spaces» : the spaces surrounding a given space, spaces without space, places for the capture of light, cement and glass cases, spaces conceived as springboards towards the void. It is this void that I try to set in motion, conferring upon it a kind of temporality. I always experiment with the possibilities of rendering fluid the perception of matter or architecture which I see as some kind of obstacle to movement and sculpture. My use of light to infiltrate matter and architecture is undertaken with a view to provoking a perceptual experience wherein this materiality is made unstable, its resistance dissolved. This movement is often provoked by the brain itself. My projects are often based on technical or scientific facts. The resulting plastic proposition is then akin to a laboratory revealing its discoveries.” - Ann Veronica Janssens

Founded by Brian Butler in 1992, 1301PE is a contemporary art gallery exhibiting significant Los Angeles based artists as well as internationally established and acclaimed artists. The gallery is known for its exhibition of significant work across mediums. Founded on the principle of promoting Los Angeles artists worldwide, the gallery has been located at its current location in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles since 1998.

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