Photo: Sonja Herman Dolz

Diana Blok  –   artist statement

Born in Montevideo ( Uruguay, 1952)

Diana Blok is a self-taught visual artist whose work explores the fluid intersections of identity, gender, memory, and cultural belonging.

Her fascination with language-both verbal and visual-shapes a practice that is as much about what’s said as what is left unspoken. Working primarily through staged photography, Blok constructs intimate, often collaborative portraits that challenge binary thinking and reflect the complexity of lived experience.

Her images are quiet yet charged, inviting reflection on transformation, ambiguity and imagination, giving voice to lives that defy categorization.

Blok’s practice spans photography, film, and installation, reflecting her enduring commitment to personal freedom and the multiplicity of human experience.

Whether working in her native Latin America, her longtime home in the Netherlands, or across global contexts, she traces identity not as a fixed truth but as an evolving act of becoming.

Click here for a recent interview by Dr. Alasdair Foster in Talking Pictures, Interviews with Photographers Around the World.