Sharon van Overmeiren
Sharon Van Overmeiren (b.1985, lives and works in Belgium) makes, in her own words, ‘fictional sculptures’. She finds it difficult to qualify them as fully autonomous pieces, given that at any moment they may cease to exist in their current form of presentation. On a second level, this choice of wording refers to how she lends a voice to her sculptures; by providing them with a scenario based on found stories, taken from life or literature, combined with her own sense of how we are out of touch with the multiple objects that surround us.
The sculptures make their appearance as ‘props’ in a composition, installation or drawing, or as protagonists of a video or audio piece. In no small part, these works deal with the growing inability of the human mind to describe and experience ‘things’ beyond its own desires.
Sharon Van Overmeiren tunes into the infinite flow of visual information of our collective consciousness. She copies and pastes forms that cross her path, introducing shapes to each other to start a formal conversation, and strives to capture and exchange. Translating found forms into ceramics is an important part of Van Overmeiren’s process. It is how she strips shapes from their original context, how she finds their essence and equalizes them.