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Ann Veronica Janssens at Nasher Sculpture Center
Ann Veronica Janssens at Nasher Sculpture Center
Dallas, TX, United States
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Ann Veronica Janssens at Nasher Sculpture Center
Dallas, TX, United States
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
For the first solo museum presentation in the United States of work by Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens, 5G Studio Collaborative worked with the artist to create a unique site-specific pavilion. Over the last three decades, the artist has become best known as a light artist, drawing on scientific research and working with projections, fog, and other materials to create experiences that heighten viewers’ perceptions of themselves and their surroundings.
The artist’s shaping of experience is contingent on architecture, and she often creates environments in which she can test the science of the eye with the manipulation of light within a space.
Sited in the garden of the Nasher Sculpture Center, designed by Renzo Piano, we collaborated with Janssens to create a freestanding pavilion, titled Blue, Red and Yellow. The three colors were applied to the polycarbonate exterior panels of the structure, while the interior was filled with artificial fog. This thick haze highlighted the artist’s interest in giving sculptural form to light. She describes, “Gazing at mist is an experience with contrasting effects. It appears to abolish all obstacles, materiality, the resistances specific to a given context, and at the same time, it seems to impart a materiality and tactility to light.”
As visitors moved through the pavilion, they experienced continuously shifting perspectives, which at times resulted in profound disorientation; as light passed through the walls and ceilings, the fog became radiantly suffused with their colors, changing with the movement of the viewer and shifting with the light of the sky.
The project was on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center in 2016, and the structure was completed on a rapid design and construction schedule. Polycarbonate was selected as the exterior material to minimize detailing around the edges, shaping a more pure space in itself, and allowing the structure to seemingly dissolve with the fog, and elevating the interior experience for visitors.
The artist’s shaping of experience is contingent on architecture, and she often creates environments in which she can test the science of the eye with the manipulation of light within a space.
Sited in the garden of the Nasher Sculpture Center, designed by Renzo Piano, we collaborated with Janssens to create a freestanding pavilion, titled Blue, Red and Yellow. The three colors were applied to the polycarbonate exterior panels of the structure, while the interior was filled with artificial fog. This thick haze highlighted the artist’s interest in giving sculptural form to light. She describes, “Gazing at mist is an experience with contrasting effects. It appears to abolish all obstacles, materiality, the resistances specific to a given context, and at the same time, it seems to impart a materiality and tactility to light.”
As visitors moved through the pavilion, they experienced continuously shifting perspectives, which at times resulted in profound disorientation; as light passed through the walls and ceilings, the fog became radiantly suffused with their colors, changing with the movement of the viewer and shifting with the light of the sky.
The project was on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center in 2016, and the structure was completed on a rapid design and construction schedule. Polycarbonate was selected as the exterior material to minimize detailing around the edges, shaping a more pure space in itself, and allowing the structure to seemingly dissolve with the fog, and elevating the interior experience for visitors.
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