Rineke Dijkstra

12 Mar-25 Jul 2020

Overview

Marian Goodman Gallery London is pleased to present the first UK solo exhibition of Rineke Dijkstra since 2010. The exhibition will include the UK premiere of Night Watching (2019), a video installation commissioned and first shown at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 2019. Dijkstra will also present a selection of works from a number of recognised photography series, including Family Portraits (2012–), Chen and Efrat (1999–2005) and Emma, Lucy, Cecile, (Three Sisters) (2008–2014). Night Watching (2019), a three-screen video installation, features 14 different groups of people observing and speaking in front of Rembrandt's large iconic painting The Night Watch (1642). Each group’s conversation varies from visual descriptions to conjectures on the circumstances in which the painting was created. A group of Dutch schoolgirls discuss whether Rembrandt gave the only woman in the painting the face of his wife Saskia; Japanese businessmen consider the painting’s potential for tourism; and a group of young artists discuss what it must feel like to make such an incomparable masterpiece. The scenes in the video are sequenced to explore the different ways a viewer might relate to a painting and its subject.