Jelena Vanoverbeek

Modern desire, caused by an endless wish-production of the individual, is a wound of reality, covered up intensively by cultural industry. Jelena Vanoverbeek’s artistic practice focuses on the importance of cinema in this modern condition and occupies the symbolic dimension of the images, types, text and formats that echo from the fiction screen onto reality, identifying universal concepts such as love, happiness, death, truth, etc.

Her graphical background is the perspective from which she observes, acknowledges and appropriates the film footage. This process provokes what Vanoverbeek refers to as an interfiction—a vacuum where fiction folds back onto its strategy and purpose. In this way, her works can be seen as anatomical studies: dissections of the body of a medium, a language, a symbol, a culture. 

Vanoverbeek’s selected solo exhibitions include Rossicontemporary, Brussels, Riot, Gent, The Mother, Theater Malpertuis, Tielt and Map Space, Gent, Belgium. Group exhibitions include the International Film Festival, Rotterdam 2013, and the Marres Centre of Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Courtesy of Rossicontemporary