Forgotten Spaces / Hidden Places – The Photogrammetry of Spatial Memory, Ricky Rijkenberg tries to capture a sense of spatial ambiguity. To explore this she photographed several abandoned buildings which have also essentially been forgotten, or ‘contaminated’ by their pasts. She then recalls her encounters with these spaces through architectural drawings and scale models. This process allows Rijkenberg to translate her own spatial experience into new images; it provides her with a way of imagining new spaces.
In her work Rijkenberg references the traditions of both photography and architecture.
Her photographs are quiet studies of architectural space. They are images of ambiguous structures stripped of all belongings and void of human activity. Yet lingering in these images are traces of something else: untold stories perhaps; forgotten narratives subsumed by the interplay of light and shadow; experiences hidden in the space just beyond the frame.
For the exhibition In No Particular Order at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven Rijkenberg presents a pair of photographs and 50 postcards with images or ‘spatial narratives’ which document her research between real and imagined space.
Forgotten Spaces Hidden Places is an ongoing project.
Stimuleringsfonds voor Creative Industrie
Design: Ricky Rijkenberg
Typographie: Carsten Klein
Text: Mahalia Mc Neil