Jan Dibbets uses photography to critique traditional methods of artistic depiction, such as perspective, composition, and narrative. Using the optical precision of the camera as a starting point, the artist devises quasi-mathematical systems and ephemeral land artworks to experiment with the subjectivity of photographic representation. The artist’s series Perspective Correction, for example, manipulates the distortion of a camera’s lens to create seemingly perfect shapes, such as circles and squares, that deny the perspectival recession of their surroundings. To maintain these formal illusions, Dibbets employs a variety of techniques such as varying the thickness of the shapes’ outlines, photographing the shapes from oblique angles, and selecting surfaces for their apparent neutrality.

–From the Glenstone Field Guide