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Jan Hoek
Mental Superpowers
€25,00
18,5 × 26 cm, 88 p, ills colour / b&w, paperback
ISBN 9789490800956
design: Nora Halpern
language: English
ISBN 9789490800956
design: Nora Halpern
language: English
edition of 1000
September 2018
September 2018
Lady GaGa, Diane Arbus, Vincent van Gogh, Kurt Cobain – the list of geniuses with mental health issues is long and well known. But how do the two relate to one another? Or, to rephrase the question, can a mental illness also be seen as a superpower? To answer this question Jan Hoek spent three months living in a psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn, collaborating with the hospital’s clients and other unique individuals he met in New York. This comic book, Mental Superpowers, is the result.
Jan Hoek (°1984) is artist and writer. In his work he is always attracted to the beauty of outsiders worldwide and always keen to collaborate intensively with people that normally are overlooked and create together a new image.