Each object on the mobile is an abstracted reference to a display structure somewhere in the museum, the yellow one for example refers to a plinth in the Anglo Saxon room. In Dijkman’s piece it’s as if the display structures have been released from their normal roles and allowed to float free in the central rotunda of the museum. The Grand Release now functions as a colourful focal point and striking way of questioning conventional notions of museum curatorship and displays.

Provenance

The artist.