Gestures (2008 - 2009)

Marjolijn Dijkman

Gestures April 2008 (English) Gestes July 2008 (French)

Gestures presents traces and effects of human interventions in our surroundings. This work consists of an ever-expanding series of gestures photographed worldwide since 2005 and categorised in approx. 120 categories. The images can be taken anywhere; they all emphasise that people, regardless of their geographical location, have similar ways of organising and designing their daily environment. Examples of these gestures are found in the way that elements are adapted, concealed, censored, directed, demonstrated, mirrored, constructed, and so on.

Posters Gestures:
On these posters the complete list at the time of print is published. Each time the poster is reprinted, for instance in another language, the list has changed just like the archive is constantly changing. These posters are records of these changes.

Gestures April 2008 (English)
Edition: A1 poster in edition of 500
Published by: Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, NL
Exhibition: Localisms
Download: Gestures (pdf)

Gestes July 2008 (French)
Edition: A1 poster in edition of 500
Published by: FRAC NPDC, Dunkerque, FR
Exhibition: decollecting
Download: Gestes (pdf)

Gestos November 2009 (Portuguese)
Edition: A1 poster, 3x an edition of 1500
Published by: 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, BR
Exhibition: Grito e Escuta (Screaming and Hearing)
View: large view of poster (jpeg)

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Poster, Gestures designed by Julie Peeters

Poster A0, Gestures designed by Julie Peeters

Gestures, A poster with a selection of 8 images of the panorama. The poster presents images in the same size and grid as the images on the wall and was free to take home.

Gestures March 2009
Edition: A0 poster in edition of 1000
Published by: Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
Exhibition: Comma 02

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"Other than in the recent past, where moving was an exceptional experience and journeys were finite, today more people move for temporary periods of time and in multiple directions, driven by curiosity, material need or practical necessity. This creates a new complex geography where people with different perspectives, values and modernities repeatedly crisscross each other. In such a context, other forms of collectivity and ways of relating to space emerge, which require and shape new combinations of geographic distance and intimacy, physical proximity and knowledge and familiarity". Angela Serino,

As part of the presentation Julie Peeters designed and assembled an A0 poster that is free to take. This poster is a selection of the archive (+/-110 images) relating to the idea of the contemporary passage. (edition of 600) View the Poster (jpeg)

Gestures May 2007
Title exhibition: Contemporary Passages: temporary roots and interweaving paths
Curator: Angela Serino
Location: Tent. Rotterdam, NL
Period: 25th of May - 1st of July 2007
Participating artists: Marjolijn Dijkman, Emilio Fantin & Luigi Negro & Giancarlo Norese & Cesare Pietroiusti, Francesca Grilli, Merel van ‘t Hullenaar & Niels Vis, Pablo Pijnappel.