NIGHT WATCHING | Rineke Dijkstra

Night Watching is Rineke Dijkstra’s new film installation, on show in the Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honour. Presented as a triptych, the film shows 14 groups of people looking at Rembrandt’s The Night Watch and responding to it in their own way – the painting itself never appears. Dijkstra shot Night Watching in the Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honour over the course of six evenings, her subjects positioned directly in front of The Night Watch to offer them the most powerful possible experience of the painting.