Publisher's Synopsis
"Over the past three decades, Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens (born 1956) has become best known as a light artist, working with spotlights, projections, fog, and other materials to create experiences that heighten viewers? perceptions of themselves and their surroundings. Her exhibition for the Nasher offered a series of sculptural proposals that moved the viewer from the entrance of the building to the garden... Projected washes and haloes of light greeted visitors at the Nasher?s entrance, and two types of sculptural objects occupied the Entrance Gallery. A long, steel I-beam lied directly on the floor, its top side ground smooth and polished to a mirror shine, offering dizzying reflections of the architectural surroundings. Sharing the entrance bay with the I-beam was a group of five glass cubes, Janssens?s distinctive Aquariums, filled with a blend of liquids, including water and paraffin oil; the interactions between the liqui
