Birgit Dieker: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
The relationship between Self as Skin and Self as in the Skin is particularly important for Birgit Dieker鈥檚 artistic thinking. She is thinking of skin not only as the outer surface of the body, but also as the boundary between inside and outside, private and public, between the self and the world. For her, skin is a surface of encounters for intimacy and closeness.
Crises such as the current Covid-19 pandemic, as well as other problems of our high-performance consumer society, demand strong personalities on the one hand but promote insecurities and fears, longings and obsessions, dreams and traumas on the other. The resulting themes underlie Dieker鈥檚 artistic work. She is concerned with questions about identity, about the integral togetherness of body and personality, about the composition that we call 鈥淚鈥�.
The artist conceives pictorial settings that trace the body鈥檚 metamorphoses from an external form to an internal state of being (and vice versa).
The relationship between Self as Skin and Self as in the Skin is particularly important for Birgit Dieker鈥檚 artistic thinking. She is thinking of skin not only as the outer surface of the body, but also as the boundary between inside and outside, private and public, between the self and the world. For her, skin is a surface of encounters for intimacy and closeness.
Crises such as the current Covid-19 pandemic, as well as other problems of our high-performance consumer society, demand strong personalities on the one hand but promote insecurities and fears, longings and obsessions, dreams and traumas on the other. The resulting themes underlie Dieker鈥檚 artistic work. She is concerned with questions about identity, about the integral togetherness of body and personality, about the composition that we call 鈥淚鈥�.
The artist conceives pictorial settings that trace the body鈥檚 metamorphoses from an external form to an internal state of being (and vice versa).
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