Photo by Reza Deris
Emma Marianne van Dijken is an artistic researcher working within the tension between human control and the autonomous logic of natural systems.
In her practice, she examines how landscapes, production techniques and materials are shaped by cycles, evolution and time, and how humans attempt to steer, optimize or reduce these processes to geometry, data, and calculable structures.
Through craft-based practices – where attention, repetition and physical control are central – she makes tangible how human action relates to the slowness, resistance and inherent agency of materials.
In the interplay between human knowledge, technology and our environment, she questions where control emerges and which entity gives form.
Living and working in Groningen, the Netherlands