RINEKE DIJKSTRA — The Gymschool, St Petersburg, 2014 / Marianna (The Fairy Doll), 2014. Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 2015

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 13 January–21 February 2015. Four-panel folded exhibition handout with separate double-sided invitation card. Approximately A5 format when folded. Colour and black offset printing on paper and card. Text by Hans den Hartog Jager; translated by David McKay.

Condition: Very good. Light handling, faint surface marks and minor softening at the corners. Small creases and edge wear to the folded handout; invitation clean and complete.

The exhibition was Rineke Dijkstra’s third presentation at Galerie Marian Goodman in Paris and brought together two video works commissioned for Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg the previous year. Marianna (The Fairy Doll) follows a ten-year-old ballet student rehearsing for an audition at the Vaganova Academy; The Gymschool, St Petersburg records pupils at the Zhemchuzhina Olympic School repeatedly forming and correcting the poses required by rhythmic gymnastics.

Neither film begins with a completed performance. Instruction, repetition, concentration and interruption remain visible as the children move between the roles assigned to them and the expressions that escape those roles. The three-screen structure of The Gymschool places different stages of training beside one another, while Marianna remains with a single dancer throughout an extended rehearsal.

The invitation removes the exhibition information from the image, leaving a young gymnast folded into a pose against a nearly empty room. The accompanying handout restores the dates, titles, biography and critical text, opening across four panels of stills from the two works. The image circulated first as an announcement; the folded sheet remained as its explanation.

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