Still from Prisoner Pair, 16mm colour film, Tacita Dean 2008.
Tacita Dean makes beautiful films. Her small observation speak in such a way that you taste, feel, hear and see the subject matter of her film making. Tacita Dean's films are about the past, the present and the future all at the same time. They are the about the materiality of the film they are made on, they are about the light that is reflected and refracted off the surface of the objects that her gaze falls upon. The repeated long takes within her films tell us she is in no rush. Time just takes its course; stillness stays still.
A major survey of Tacita Dean's work appeared at the Australia Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA) from 6 June - 2 August 2009.
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