Graduation Work
You Don’t Look Sick

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

What does it mean to inhabit a body that defies expectations? To be seen, yet remain unseen, and to exist in a space suspended between external narratives and lived experiences?

"You Don't Look Sick"investigates the artist’s experience of navigating an unseen disability. The work examines the tension between self-perception and the societal lens, asking what happens when the body - often seen as a reflection of identity - becomes a canvas for projection instead. 

Through the creation of a sculpture of herself, a video reproduction of a recurring conversation, and a series of self-portrait collages that developed alongside the sculpture, Jasmijn Vermeeren reflects on the dialogue between gazes—her own, the able-bodied gaze, and the gaze of the camera – exploring her own skin as the threshold where these gazes meet and collide.

PLATFORM STATEMENT

EXHIBITION

4 Self-portrait collages to be hung on the wall
60 x 90 cm hahnemuhle mat print on aluminium

Big print self-portrait on small wall as room divider 
100 x 200 photo wallpaper 

Sculpture of parts of my upper body 
Face, chest, right arm, left arm
(made out of paper mâché masks with a photographic top layer) 
These masks will be hung from the ceiling to form a sculpture (1:1 of my own body size and height - I’m 180cm tall). There will be a small wall (with the big print self-portrait on the other side) behind it to separate it from the rest of the work. This will be the first thing you see, behind it will be the rest of the work. 

AV

Video work - featuring an re-enactment of a reoccurring conversation about ‘not looking disabled’ - it’s function being contextualisation of the project.
Which will be shown imbedded into the small wall with the photo wallpaper at eye hight (when standing) on 24 inch tv.