Béatrice Didier

Béatrice Didier was born in Brussels in 1971, and still lives there. After training in performing arts, she taught and worked with young theatre companies, including Ricochets, where she explored the creative dimensions of the actor for many years. Following her encounters with Boris Nieslony and Monica Klingler, she turned to live art, developing her own artistic projects both solo and in collaboration with groups. These took place in public spaces, galleries, museums and non-artistic places. In Belgium, but also often outside the 'Flat Country'.


Each action she creates questions her presence in the world. A presence, but sometimes a place, a place and its memory... Each action wishes to be ephemeral, site-specific, and with minimal means.
 Each action is the fragment of an ongoing process, transformed by the experiences that Béatrice goes through and that go through her. There’s an obsession for the term poíêsis : "to create, to make,” the act of making within the process of being made.

For some years now, her performative or interactive actions have sometimes given rise to installations that she likes to call traces:
 Traces of encounters: with a being, a material, an element, an object, a place, a story intertwined with History, a thought.
 Traces of actions or gestures emanating from these encounters.
 Traces of a journey in the present moment, or of attempts at such a journey.
 Traces exploring the paradoxes of the human existence.

Traces or testimony? It depends on your perspective...