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Donna West Brett, Associate Professor in Art History, University of Sydney

How the poetically-charged art of Tacita Dean gives its audience a moment for stillness and time

Tacita Dean, Paradise (film still), 2021, with music, Paradiso by Thomas Adès, 35mm colour anamorphic film, image courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris and Los Angeles, © the artist

The first time I saw one of Tacita Dean’s monumental film-works it was by chance.

Soaring the heights of the Tate’s Turbine Hall, FILM 2011 was an entrancing visual elegy to art, nature and time.

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