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Damien & The Love Guru
Sharon Van Overmeiren in collaboration with Lotte Meret Effinger, Installation view
‘ETHEREAL TRAP’
SHARON VAN OVERMEIREN
IN COLLABORATION WITH LOTTE MERET EFFINGER
LAST WEEK ON VIEW AT THE GALLERY IN BRUSSELS
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Sharon Van Overmeiren, Faith in Strangers #4, 2021, beeswax, 122 x 26 x 26 cm / [removed] x [removed] x [removed] in
Sharon Van Overmeiren, Faith in Strangers #1, 2021, beeswax, 122 x 26 x 26 cm / [removed] x [removed] x [removed] in
Sharon Van Overmeiren, Faith in Strangers #4 (detail)
Sharon Van Overmeiren, Faith in Strangers #4 (detail)
Installation view
Installation view
Sharon Van Overmeiren, Count Your Blessings (detail)
Sharon Van Overmeiren, Count Your Blessings (detail)
Sharon Van Overmeiren, Count My Blessings (detail)
Installation view
A kind of archaeological dig takes place, it’s a sort of hollowing out, a kind of scraping, whose void shifts and unsettles material fragments, chains of images and their subsequent associations, intersecting the cho- reographies of temporal overlay.
It seeks remnants and imprints, sifting through a mental collage of surrealist logic, bypassing archetypes and cerebral scraps of palimpsest, anthropomorphisms, annelida, and trapezoids – objects of sacrifice, still re-VERB-erating from the detonation of the ambiguity bomb.
Circumventing the minds linguistic censorship, a filtering of agency takes place, negotiating the bleeding of fresh stimuli into a repository of surprised forgettings. Regurgitating and renewing unactivated potentials of the past for future constructs, it expresses itself symptomatically.
This is the outside of the inside, an intermediate lining whose fibres remain somewhat loosely intact to a kind of acoustic scaffolding; a gnostic apparatus, whose currency churns the model of history through an auto-cannibalistic feedback loop, expelling snapshots of ceremony, broken symbols and all that’s caught in its in mechanism out into a glittering emporium of reflections and simulations. This is the diachronic space of non contemporaneity, which in its possibility of forms and in its mutability appears to elude any formal designation. This is the shock of impression. This is the archival footage of the earth. Welcome to the ethereal trap.
– Charlotte Norwood
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Sharon Van Overmeiren (1985, BE) plays with the genesis of fiction, questioning facts surrounding categorisation, representation and the transmission of knowledge. Intuitive in approach, her practice investigates the realm of the collective subconscious and the growing inability of the human mind to describe and experience “things” beyond its own desires. Since graduating with an MA from the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp, Sharon Van Overmeiren has been awarded the Mark Macken Sculpture Prize and the Champ D’Action Time Canvas Award and has been selected for residency programs at Van Eyck Academy (NL) and WIELS, Centre for Contemporary Arts (BE). She has previously exhibited at Rodolphe Janssen Gallery (BE), Neuer Aachen Kunstverein (DE), Lucie Drdova Gallery (CZ) and at Platform: Paris/Brussels hosted by David Zwirner. She lives and works in Antwerp.
Lotte Meret Effinger (1985, DE) analyses the effects of digital media and new technology on our self identity. Her practice articulates the conjunctions between physical experience, political agency and digital worlds through hybrid sculptures, installation, performance and video. Since graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (NL), she has been an artist in residence at Van Dyke Academy (NL) and was included in the Emerging Artists Program at the German short film festival (DE). Her work has been exhibited at Goethe-Institute, Beijing (CH), Kunsthal Rotterdam (NL), Kunstverein Leipzig (DE), Nottingham Contemporary (UK) Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE) and Kunsthalle Basel (CH). She lives and works in Berlin.
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CURRENTLY
Christiane Blattmann
The Law
4. February – 26. March 2022
Damien & The Love Guru
Zurich
Anne Fellner
Wine Or Candy
27. January – 20. February 2022
Haus der Kunst
Oslo
Energy Patterns
group show
16. February – 23. April 2022
Galerie Tobias Naehring
Berlin
Emanuele Marcuccio
D’Après Cavenago, 2017-2021
[removed] / Damien & The Love Guru
Zurich
’45º28’OI’N 9ºII’24’E
group show
10. December – 4. March 2022
CFAlive
Milano
Mickael Marman
Heimweh
27. January – 26. February 2022
Centralbanken / Santolarosa
Oslo
KMS/ACC/FRA/TXL/CPH
1. February – 27. February 2022
curated by Bizarro
as part of 27DAGE
Art Hub
Copenhagen
Jannis Marwitz
La réforme de Pooky
group show
19. February – 8. May 2022
curated by Grégory Sugnaux, Paolo Baggi and Nicolas Brulhart
Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Fribourg
UPCOMING
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
Giuseppe Desiato
Le Nemesiache
curated by Sonia D’ Alto
How she spins
Opening 9. March 2022
5-9 pm
Damien & The Love Guru
Brussels
Christiane Blattmann
Sharon Van Overmeiren
group show
Opening 11. March 2022
6-9 pm
Nir Altman
Munich
Anne Fellner
duo show
Opening 29. March 2022
Castiglioni in collaboration with Damien & The Love Guru
Milano
Margarita Maximova
group show
Opening 11. March 2022
[removed]
Zurich
Jasmin Werner
Stufen zur Kunst
Opening 11. March 2022
7pm
Kunstverein Hannover
Hannover
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