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Tacita Dean will be the next artist to create a commission for Tate Modern 's Turbine Hall as part of the Unilever Series.
Tacita Dean is a British artist now based in Berlin, best known for her use of film. Deans films act as portraits or depictions rather than conventional cinematic storytelling, capturing fleeting natural light or subtle shifts in movement. Her static camera positions and long takes allow events to unfold unhurriedly. Other works have attempted to reconstruct events from memory, such as an infamous thwarted attempt to circumnavigate the world.
Deans interest in the cinematic also extends to her work in other media. The Russian Ending 2001 borrows its title from the early Danish cinema tradition of making two alternate endings for a film: one happy for the American market and one tragic for the Russian market. In this work, Dean annotated postcards of catastrophes with director's notes.
Many of Deans works show the ways in which architecture can be transformed by the camera's lens. Craneway Event 2009 follows the choreographer Merce Cunningham (19192009) and his dance company rehearsing in a former Ford assembly plant, built of glass and steel and overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Deans film allows the ever-changing light of this environment to fall in rhythm with the dancers movements.
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KünstlerInnen: Tacita Dean
