You Don’t Look Sick
2025What 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.
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.
Installation Shots You Don’t Look Sick - KABK Graduation Show 2025
Installation Shot You Don’t Look Sick - KABK Graduation Show 2025