Art in America, June 1st, 2003
Setting off fireworks seems to be an inalienable civil right in Germany, one exercised with alarming enthusiasm around the New Year holidays on Berlin's streets, where the idle stroller quickly learns to run a frenzied gauntlet of explosions both large and small. This winter, not all the pyrotechnics were outside, however. For her first solo show at Schipper & Krome, the Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens treated viewers to a silent but retinally relentless barrage of flashing images.
In a large, pitch-dark room, Janssens projected a five-minute video loop generated by means of a commonly...
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