“There’s no secret, I’m in the world’s mysteries.”–Ann Veronica Janssens

Janssens presents Leisure and Survival. The aluminum letters are carefullyplaced throughout the gallery to spell out Leisure and Survival, implying a contradiction between the

two and that one’s existence is not without the other. The juxtaposition of Leisure and Survival can beseen everywhere, from yachts gallivanting through the Mediterranean next to migrants swimming fortheir safety.

Janssens presents a selection of new glasswork—a material Janssens has vigorously investigated forits multitudinous optical and physical qualities. “Observing the world, and in the process of not quiterecognizing it,” as Anders Kold writes “is a key aspect of Ann Veronica Janssen’s art – a premise of theartist’s practice and methodology, and a condition...for experiencing her work.” Frisson Rose, forexample, reorders our experience of it, taking itself outside of its objecthood and foregrounding ourexperience. Frisson, the French word for thrill or excitement, can also refer to the bumps on our skin aswe experience intense emotion. Here the glass, which literally mirrors us, disguises its materiality bymimicking ours.

Janssens is also exhibiting a new work of Glitters. It engages us spatially and plays with its manydichotomies. The space is then occupied by the work and the viewer, our knowledge of glitter’s nearformlessness contrasts with our ability to move within the exhibition space and even the presumption ofpreservation is set against ephemerality with the work being swept up and repackaged after theexhibition closes resolving the contradictions it once contained.

Born in Folkestone, England in 1956, Janssens lives and works in Brussels. In 1999 Janssensrepresented Belgium at the 48th Venice Biennale. Janssens’s work has been the subject of major solo andgroup exhibitions around the world. Recent exhibitions include: Collection Lambert in Avignon, France(2022); The Pantheon in Paris, France (2021); South London Gallery in the United Kingdom (2020);Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk
, Denmark (2020). Janssens has significant forthcomingexhibitions at the Fondazione Pirelli Hangar in Milan, Italy (2023) and M WOODS Museum in Beijing,China (2023). A selection of solo exhibitions include: FRAC Corse, Bonifacio, France; Serendipity, WIELS

• Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium; Are you experienced?, Espai d’art contemporani deCastelló, Castelló, Spain; ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand; Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany.Janssens’s work is held in major public and private collections worldwide.