PHONE BOX

Els Dietvorst (1964, Belgium) is a socially engaged artist. She uses dialogue, experiment and intuition as her main artistic strategies. Dietvorst reflects on the ‘condition humaine’. As a result, major themes such as life and death, fear, alienation and desire are addressed in her work. 

The position of the outsider is something Dietvorst specifically focuses on, directing her gaze towards those persons and events that would otherwise go unnoticed. She tries to create circumstances which enable us to be together, think together and act together. The artist sees art as a means to communicate, a reason to talk about relationships between people and their environment, or as an encounter with whatever is strange to us.