Levi Overvest

In his paintings, Levi Overvest takes interest in renavigating extreme and often disquieting situations in history. With an observing and curious eye, Levi looks for stories about human nature and its ambiguities when dealing with the order of good and evil. Levi is interested in how one creates a moral compass. By removing backgrounds and adding new elements, a play of evocative and stately sceneries begins to unfold. He tends to take images from an existing visual language, but, by means of painting, he strives away from their original context. ‘The original meaning isn’t important anymore…’ (Overvest, 2023) 

 This gives the painting a degenerous feeling that invites the mind into a state of puzzlement and constant questioning. Levi does not have the right answer, nor is he searching for its conclusion. The paintings and its embodied tensions are his invitation for others to think along with. 

For his graduation work, Levi aims to create an installation with his paintings that hosts a space for a play to be performed once a day. His final work consisting of the three elements of paintings, the installation and the play (inspired from a chapter of the existing book ‘The brothers Karamazow’ from Dostojevski) testify of his attitude towards painting where he sees painting as a way of thinking.  

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