{"id":16664,"date":"2015-10-23T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=16664"},"modified":"2015-10-23T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:03:07","slug":"walking-through-the-swirling-mists-of-ann-veronica-janssens-yellowbluepink-at-the-wellcome-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/walking-through-the-swirling-mists-of-ann-veronica-janssens-yellowbluepink-at-the-wellcome-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens&#8217; yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-01.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens's yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection, London, October 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an intriguing new\u00a0installation at the Wellcome Collection in central London, with\u00a0Ann Veronica Janssens&#8217; wonderful &#8216;yellowbluepink&#8217; inviting visitors to get lost in thick, disorientating, coloured fog.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-02.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens's yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection, London, October 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was quite a lengthy queue to get inside, but it was worth wait, with visitors led into a large room filled with mist.<\/p>\n<p>Navigating the space was tricky, as walls and people would hove in and out of view through the fog, and it was easy to completely lose your bearings. It was also a bloody brilliant place to play hide and seek!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-03.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens's yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection, London, October 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The experience reminded me of the equally unsettling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/swirling-mist-and-strange-shifting-lights-at-momentum-at-the-curve-barbican-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">Momentum installation at the Barbican<\/a> last year, where clouds and shifting lights made the simple act of getting from A to B a challenge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-04.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens's yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection, London, October 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/exhibitions\/states-mind-ann-veronica-janssens\" target=\"_blank\">gallery<\/a> describes the work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colour is caught in a state of suspension, obscuring any detail of surface or depth. Instead, attention is focussed on the process of perception itself. Janssens\u2019s work is both disorienting and uplifting as the daily wonder of conscious experience is given renewed emphasis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-05.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens's yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection, London, October 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some more photos from the installation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-06.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens's yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection, London, October 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-07.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens's yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection, London, October 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-08.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens's yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection, London, October 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-09.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through the swirling mists of Ann Veronica Janssens's yellowbluepink at the Wellcome Collection, London, October 2015\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sizeable queue. The website offers this advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Entrance into the space is limited. Queuing or timed ticketing may be in operation, and last entry will typically be an hour before closing at weekends and Thursday evenings. Keep an eye on Twitter for extra updates: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ExploreWellcome\" target=\"_blank\">@explorewellcome<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qxVIZAHFs6M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>More info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wellcome Collection<br \/>\n183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE<br \/>\nTel: +44 (0)20 7611 2222<br \/>\nemail: <a href=\"mailto:info@wellcomecollection.org\">info@wellcomecollection.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Admission free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery opening times<\/strong><br \/>\nMonday galleries closed<br \/>\nTuesday 10:00 &#8211; 18:00<br \/>\nWednesday 10:00 &#8211; 18:00<br \/>\nThursday 10:00 &#8211; 22:00<br \/>\nFriday 10:00 &#8211; 18:00<br \/>\nSaturday 10:00 &#8211; 18:00<br \/>\nSunday 11:00 &#8211; 18:00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/exhibitions\/states-mind-ann-veronica-janssens\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an intriguing new\u00a0installation at the Wellcome Collection in central London, with\u00a0Ann Veronica Janssens&#8217; wonderful &#8216;yellowbluepink&#8217; inviting visitors to get lost in thick, disorientating, coloured fog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,456,17,193],"tags":[1275,34,1277,1273,1274,1276],"class_list":["post-16664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-ann-veronica-janssens","tag-art","tag-colours","tag-mists","tag-wellcome-collection","tag-yellowbluepink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yellowpinkblue-wellcome-collection-011.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4kM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16670,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions\/16670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}