Ann Veronica Janssens Heat, 2024

Made from gilded mosquito netting, Heat, a new work from the artist’s series of gold-leaf covered objects, wonderfully encapsulates the tension between beauty and danger, a recurring motif in the artist's work. The work can be understood as complex deliberation on contemporary life and ecology. The net, a material used to avert nuisance but also illness, is covered in a substance that, with its sunny glow, represents both the warmth of energy and its potentially destructive force. The work makes visible the movement of the air, as it is gently animated by a breeze, and with it, with subtly beauty, the connection between all things, of all beings at any moment in time becomes apparent.