'Dean's work seeks connections between past and present, fact and fiction. She maps not just the objective world but also our private worlds and traces the complex interaction between the two. The depiction of different locations is matched by dislocations in space and time: real landscapes are layered with inner, psychic landscapes defined by our own desires and obsessions.
Tate Britain Tacita Dean Recent films and other works
The above image is from Fernsehturm 2001
16mm colour anamorphic film with optical sound.
‘This film is shot using an anamorphic lens, which like the old Cinema-scope format, extends the frame to over double its normal size. Filmed in the revolving restaurant of the television tower in Alexanderplatz in the former eastern part of Berlin, this film documents the metamorphosis that the restaurant undergoes with the setting of the sun and the coming of night. The nature of the space shifts from being about the exterior and the view, to becoming an interior social place with the windows in the end effective mirrors. The Fernsehturm has retained its political edge despite its consumption by tourism: with the advent of reunification, the speed of the rotation was doubled so one complete turn now takes half an hour whereas before it took an hour.’
Tacita Dean's work for The Unilever Series in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern will be open on 11 October 2011.
more here
