Antwerp City Collection

During the project The Return of the Swallows, Els Dietvorst investigates the 'roots' of the Anneessens neighbourhood in Brussels and its inhabitants for four years. It's a search for individual and collective creation. People from Brussels with different cultural and social backgrounds depict their life experiences using a variety of artistic media. In the next phase of the project, they transcend these realities, incorporating and performing various imagined personalities. Their improvisations, life stories and emotions are woven together into an impressionistic sketch: Zwaluwenlandschap (Swallows Landscape).