Rineke Dijkstra

New York City

Since the early 1990s, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic and video work that offers a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Therefore, the Guggenheim Museum currently presents Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, an extensive mid career survey.

Dijkstra works in series, creating groups of photographs and videos around a specific typology or theme. In 1992, she started making portraits of adolescents posed on beaches from Hilton Head, South Carolina, to Poland and Ukraine. Shot from a low perspective, the subjects of the ‚Beach Portraits‘ (1992–2002), poised on the brink of adulthood, take on a monumental presence. In contemporaneous works, including portraits of new mothers after giving birth, and photographs of bullfighters immediately after leaving the ring, Dijkstra sought subjects whose physical exhaustion diminished the likelihood of an artificed pose.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

June 29th – October 8th, 2012
5th Ave at 89th Street
New York, NY 10128
USA

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