Curated by Charles Gohy

For the official opening of Wiels in 2007, Brussels-based Ann Veronica Janssens produced a short film that magically captured the abstract beauty of a solar eclipse. Janssens returns to this mesmerizing subject in a new film, which debuts at her first hometown solo show in a decade. Presenting work from the past fifteen years—including several sculptures, five films, and seven largescale, site-specific installations that artificially manipulate space, light, color, and sound, this survey should catch the full spectrum of Janssens’s attempts to give form to the intangible constituents of human perception. A live “laboratory” will operate alongside such immersive environments as Orsay, 2003—an intense installation of pulsing lights—which, like the aerogel the artist often sculpts, astounds, not least for being 99 percent air.

— Wouter Davidts