![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Dancer Ring](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/b2aaaec5c5dbd49b68baad804b0c86d318ca7dda-1600x1067.jpg?w=800)
Bortolami is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition with Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François. Former partners and collaborators, their new and recent works create a poetic exchange between the two artists. François presents objects and their implicit origins: a constructed corner, copied and reimagined from a courtyard in India; a soccer ball assembled from a leather jacket; worn sandals cast in bronze. Interspersed, Janssens places smooth, translucent glass rolls and brilliant white glitter scattered across the floor, iridescently. Their assemblage creates a tableau that is both aerial and terrestrial.
The sound of the araponga, or three-wattled bellbird, is curious and metallic. Its cry recalls a shared memory for Janssens and François, during a visit to Sao Paolo for the biennial in 1994. Five years later, they would represent Belgium in the Venice Biennale in 1999, and would show together again in a two-person exhibition at Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in 2015.
Works
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Dancer Ring](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/b2aaaec5c5dbd49b68baad804b0c86d318ca7dda-1600x1067.jpg?w=800)
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Luminaire](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/3ce5c4b636e4f348adae6a0a3f393e6c1f7ad9b8-933x1400.jpg?w=800)
Luminaire, 2019
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled One Another (football)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/e255bea6322d1b10850e49c1143ea7f888d37883-933x1400.jpg?w=800)
One Another (football), 2019
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Trousers](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/158bd60b8eead1e4cfce91c0ddccec8d7282569d-933x1400.jpg?w=800)
Trousers, 1991
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Materialization of tongues](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/8d3e3401055e1832623747e06db244e2c985a406-1600x1067.jpg?w=800)
Materialization of tongues, 2018
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Parpaing (concrete block and tabacco)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/00954a844e299b76e67d65fd409e9582acbddf74-1050x1400.jpg?w=800)
Parpaing (concrete block and tabacco), 2019
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Blue Glass Roll 405](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/f63c211dcfdfc913f18d5661dd599b31301897ce-933x1400.jpg?w=800)
Blue Glass Roll 405, 2017-2018
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Candy Sculpture 805/2-600-805/2](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/070ca08bf99c7f461432ed9c81cd7482546bf53d-933x1400.jpg?w=800)
Candy Sculpture 805/2-600-805/2, 2018
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled The Skeis…](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/72ce02730d5f38835d87c6d85ccccbf8b4431c6e-933x1400.jpg?w=800)
The Skeis…, 2019
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Hazy Glass Roll](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/8f05786f3c1082a1930100aa936dea9db37e2fc5-933x1400.jpg?w=800)
Hazy Glass Roll, 2019
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (White Glitter)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/d9684fe44fd7fecf2e7e1cdf015fa279276532b1-1600x1067.jpg?w=800)