Gestures - Panorama

"Dijkman' evocative images represent her ongoing investigation into representations of the world. Dijkman is interested in place, how we find a sense of place and how the human can be seen in every intervention in the landscape, be it accidental or with purpose." - Graham Gussin Bloomberg SPACE 2009

Gestures – Panorama is part of the ongoing project Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The panorama can be read as visual essay with an associative narrative compiled of photographs. The work is presented as fragments, of presentations of creating all together an endless panorama. The content changes each time in relation to it’s context and topic of the exhibition for which it is presented. In collaboration with designer Julie Peeters I developed a set of rules regarding space and rows allowing for maximum freedom to arrange the images within a fixed grid.



The images within Gestures show traces and effects of human interventions in our surroundings worldwide. Examples of these gestures are found in the way in which elements are adapted, concealed, directed, demonstrated, mirrored, displayed and so on. The work reveals a subjective and expressive way of perceiving and interpreting the world around us.

At the moment I’m developing a publication build up within this grid structure out of 2000 images. This publication will be published by IKON Gallery at the end of this year.



Gestures, A poster with a selection of 8 images of the panorama. The ‘cut-out’ presents images in the same size and grid as the images on the wall and was free to take home. (published by Bloomberg SPACE in an edition of 1000)
   
Giving Directions, by Richard Wentworth

www.theatrumorbisterrarum.com , online publication, published by the Jan van Eyck Academie. (2008)