Multi-Layered Narratives
In a 2018 interview with Royal Academy, Tacita Dean (b. 1965) stated that she âdidnât care about the long run, caring only about now.â Dean is a British European artist born in Canterbury, currently living and working between Berlin and Los Angeles (where she was the Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute from 2014 to 2015). She is perhaps one of the best-known female artists of her time â a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, winner of the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and a Royal Academy of Arts electee â exploring a sense of history, time and place, as well as the quality of light and the tangible essence of analogue film reels.