Art Office

Dirk van Lieshout

public space - residency - artistic research

I look for a direct relationship with the place or location where I work and investigate what the necessity is in that place. I am working this out into a new work. Concepts such as movement and performance characterize my work. Movement always refers to something to come; the future, coincidence often plays a role in this. With performance there is the possibility of direct contact with the environment and the possibility, the attempts to shift or change something in it. These concepts are translated into drawings, models and installations. My works do not offer a complete story or an unambiguous message. They are fragmentary staging of situations that can be interpreted in several ways.