Reading performance Dorien Dijkhuis

At Salon #6, we welcome writer and performer Dorien Dijkhuis, who will recite a series of poems in dialogue with the exhibition.

Dorien Dijkhuis expresses powerful emotions through subtle observations. For the Salon, she will read from her debut collection Waren we dieren (Were We Animals), about traces of those who came before us and what remains, about alienation and the question of whether we ever truly belong. From Solastalgia, about the sadness of a world that is changing whilst you are still in the midst of it.

She concludes with a new poem: “Er gaan verhalen” (Stories go around), about the longing to leave something behind that outlives us.