{"id":949811,"date":"2026-10-28T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949811\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:50:12","slug":"tacita-deans-truth-in-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949811\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200b\u200bTacita Dean\u2019s Truth in Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/tag\/art-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Art Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Instead of the slick stream of internet and AI imagery, the moving pictures projected onto a 31-foot-tall column are insistently material.<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/author\/tara-anne-dalbow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/tara-anne-dalbow.jpg\" alt=\"Tara Anne Dalbow\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MN_A32A7727-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\u200b\u200bTacita Dean\u2019s Truth in Materials\"\/><br \/>\n            Installation view of Tacita Dean: FILM (photo Monica Nouwens, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York\/Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London; all other photos Tara Anne Dalbow\/Hyperallergic)<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0There is a certain irony to the formal correspondence between the endless scroll of a social media feed and a spool of 35mm photographic film. But what Tacita Dean\u2019s monumental 2011 installation, FILM, makes clear is that the similarities end there. Instead of the slick, frictionless stream of homogeneous imagery circulating the internet, polished by filters and increasingly artificially generated, the moving pictures projected onto a 31-foot-tall column are insistently material: grainy, flickering, mottled by dust and interrupted by flashes of overexposure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sit for a moment in the pool of light reflected off the polished floor, head tilted upward, listening to the projector\u2019s low whirring, and you\u2019ll understand why the artist argued that transitioning from film to digital would mean changing artistic mediums completely. \u201cIt is not only emulsion versus pixels,\u201d Dean wrote in an op-ed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2011\/feb\/22\/tacita-dean-16mm-film?ref=hyperallergic.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>, \u201cor light versus electronics but something deeper \u2014 something to do with poetry.\u201d The simmering shots of cathedral windows and vine-ripe tomatoes feel sensuous, even vital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5390.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1301\"  \/>Installation view of Tacita Dean: FILM <\/p>\n<p>First commissioned for Tate Modern\u2019s Turbine Hall, the 11-minute silent film makes its United States debut in the similarly cavernous Theater Gallery at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. The towering, vertical image, achieved by turning an anamorphic lens 90 degrees, looms like a colossal doorway in the dark. Sprocket holes that advance the celluloid through a projector border the composition, turning the screen into a massive film strip. Film is both Dean\u2019s subject and her medium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    Keep reading with your email \u2014 it\u2019s free<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Create a free account to read more articles each month, and get the best of Hyperallergic in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#00AEEE\">Create free account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art Review Instead of the slick stream of internet and AI imagery, the moving pictures projected onto a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-949811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}