During the first Covid lockdown in 2020, when we were only restricted to 2 kilometers, I was walking from one beach to the other. Then my eye fell on a rock with a little white stone on it. Written on the stone, in what looked like a young girl’s handwriting, was the following message: ‘Covid, I am lonely.’ That attempt at connection inspired me. After half an hour walking there by the sea, I added ten more white stones to the rock. I kept doing this gesture daily, like a ritual. Other walkers started copying me and the Covid shrine became not only a personal ritual but a collective monument of connection. Laying a stone at the temple is sharing your intention and special wish with the universe and releasing it to the elements.
-- Els Dietvorst
Beelden: Els Dietvorst en Ali Dietvorst
Teksten: Els Dietvorst, Carine Fol, Karla Sanchez en Stefan Vanthuyne
Ontwerp: Sadrie Alves
Gepubliceerd door Stockmans Art Books & Track Report (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen)
Print: Bruno Devos, Stockmans Art Books
→ Deze publicatie maakt deel uit van het doctoraatsonderzoek 'Partisans of the Real' van Els Dietvorst aan de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen en ARIA - UAntwerpen.
→ ‘Coastal Shrine’ verschijnt parallel aan de tentoonstelling 'This is what you came for' in CENTRALE for Contemporary Art en Bozar Brussel, in de context van de BelgianArtPrize.
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