Gender and art

"Though her photographic portraits are often compared to seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, Rineke Dijkstra’s latest works—namely, two short films shot in Russian schools and commissioned by the 2014 edition of Manifesta—more readily conjure Degas’s Impressionist-era ballerinas.

In Marianna (The Fairy Doll) (all works 2014), the titular subject is an angelic ten-year-old ballet-school prodigy. Outfitted in pink leggings and accessorized with Hello Kitty earrings, her girlishness is all the more emphatic within the dollhouse-esque pink studio in which she practices. [...]"

Rineke Dijkstra

January 13–February 21, 2015

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

http://artforum.com/picks/id=49902

This comprehensive mid-career survey features over 70 color photographs and five video installations by the Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. Rineke Dijkstra is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.