Sharon Van Overmeiren

In her practice, Sharon Van Overmeiren (BE) allows herself to be inundated by the infinite flow of visual information that runs through our collective consciousness. She borrows, transforms, and pastes forms and shapes that cross her path, presenting iconographies and symbols to engage in conversation and encounter. An interest in the universal underpinnings that punctuate religions, cultures and social trends motivates this unbiased gaze and curiosity: appropriating elements from a trans-cultural and trans-historical set of references. She works with unfired clay, ceramics and beeswax to create totem-like figures. Her uniqueness lies in the way she takes forms out of their original context, unearthing their formal qualities, their essence and placing them on equal footing. She lives and works in Antwerp.