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Damien & The Love Guru
Sharon Van Overmeiren, Holds in Custody #2 (green), Holds in Custody #3 (blue), 2022, beeswax, oil paint,
meranti wood,[removed] x 27 x [removed] cm / [removed] x [removed] x [removed] in
Art Brussels 2023
20th April – 23rd April 2023
Brussels Expo, Halls 5 & 6
Place de la Belgique 1
1020 Brussels, Belgium
Discovery section
Booth 6A-31
Playing out vertically, Sharon van Overmeiren’s works take on the auratic qualities of the totem, their anthropomorphism coming with promises of talismanic powers. They stand vertically, cutting the space as bulkheads in a psychological landscape. But in their full frontality they also look strangely naked, a feeling we could owe to the materiality of the ceramic, making the auratic character less stable, as if those figures were unsure of what they are supposed to conjure. To read it with a sense of mission reminds of a modernist tradition: David Smith’s Tanktotem of 1952 stands in vicinity, treating the totem as an abstract sign through a precise work on the materials that compose it.
⏤ excerpt of the text by Paolo Baggi
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CURRENTLY
HC
Fuoco Alle Galere
14. April – 1. July 2023
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels
Alison Yip and Tiziana La Melia
confessions on sparkling hill
3. February – 13. May 2023
Damien & The Love Guru, Zürich
UPCOMING
HC
Booklaunch ‘Friends in Art’
in collaboration with Atelier Brenda and Lucas Hirsch
Friday 21. April 2023
5-9pm
Saint-Martin Bookshop, Brussels
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