Sharon Van Overmeiren: Jacuzzi of Despair (Edition of 600 copies)
Sharon Van Overmeiren, Sharon Van Overmeiren (graphic design)
De Warande & Zolo Press, 2025
€34,95
There are countless ways to interpret death, and the Jacuzzi of Despair does not aim to add them. Instead, it fizzes, swirls, weeps, and sweeps — an unsettled current of images and arrangements, placing the sculptures of Belgian artist Sharon Van Overmeiren (b. 1985) within a strange narrative of mortality and rebirth. Born from a collaboration with Belgian graphic designer Sharon Van Overmeiren, the publication refrects Sharon’s work through a series of familiar yet elusive aesthetic mechanisms: from the speculative and ritualistic to the archival and surreal, from the encyclopaedic urge to categorise, to the spectacle of commercial catchphrases. As such, the Jacuzzi of Despair navigates and distorts the symbolic structures by which we typically frame life and death, suggesting a new order wherein their ineffanle dimensions do not stand apart but fold seamlessly into one another. What emerges is a disorienting artifact, a publication both buoyant and weighty, performing a slippery, playful, and evocative attempt to grasp the mechanisms by which we make sense of life-only to dissolve them into incoherence, creating the conditions for new meanings to take root.
ISBN: 9798990911352
