Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François
Galería Mascota is pleased to present Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François. Bringing together major figures of contemporary European art, the exhibition explores perception, materiality, and embodied experience through distinct yet resonant practices. Janssens and François share a longstanding artistic dialogue, marked by collaboration, contrast, and mutual influence. The exhibition unfolds as a choreography of light, movement, and subtle intervention, inviting viewers into heightened states of awareness.
Ann Veronica Janssens (b. 1956, Folkestone, UK)
Lives and works in Brussels
Since the 1970s, Janssens has developed an experimental practice centered on perception. Working with simple or immaterial materials such as light, sound, and artificial fog, she creates immersive environments that dissolve spatial boundaries.
Her minimalist installations confront visitors with situations of disorientation and heightened sensitivity. Vision becomes unstable, the body becomes a tool of perception, and space unfolds as a lived experience rather than a
fixed architecture.
Janssens’ work has been exhibited internationally in major institutions and public spaces, consistently redefining
the relationship between viewer and environment.
Michel François (b. 1956, Sint-Truiden, Belgium)
Lives and works between Brussels and Paris
Michel François multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Through the transformation of everyday objects, he explores tensions between form and meaning, intimacy and politics, truth and manipulation.
By recontextualizing familiar imagery, François destabilizes perception and reveals hidden structures of power and
ideology. His work invites critical reflection on how we construct reality through objects and signs
François has exhibited widely, including at documenta IX, the Venice Biennale (1999), Centre Pompidou-Metz, and major museums worldwide.