An essay written for Coastal Shrine by Els Dietvorst.

Coastal Shrine is published in parallel with the exhibition  ‘This is what you came for’ in CENTRALE for Contemporary Art and Bozar Brussels, in the context of the BelgianArtPrize. 

The book is part of the PhD research ‘Partisans of the Real’, conducted by Els Dietvorst at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and ARIA – UAntwerp.