I wish I could transport myself to the Tate in London right now because this installation by Tacita Dean looks breath taking. Tacita Deans piece is titled FILM and it is a homage to the dying art form that is analogue film. The last place in London that would actually develop 16mm film is now closing down so there are very few places now left n the world to do this which is pretty sad. I've always wanted to make animations using film like Norman McLaren. What a legend.
Tacita tells a fascinating story of the green sun of madagascar. In Madagascar at a certain time of year the sun apparently goes green. As she sat on a beach filming the sun some questions arose from people around her as to what exactly she was filming when she told them about the green sun of madagascar they began to also film on their digital cameras. They did not see with their naked eyes the green glare of the sun, nor did they see it on the digital camera so she rather disappointedly accepted she had missed the green rays from the sun. It was not until she got her film developed in London that there in one single frame the sun turns green. It was only the film camera that could pick up on the fraction of a second the sun went green for. Amazing.
Her piece in the Turbine hall in the Tate plays with the rhythm between colour and black and white, it has reference to art history and also to artists who have previously shown in the Turbine Hall including Sun Olafur Eliassons "Sun" and Rene Magritte.
"The subjects are connected to the medium I use. it's all about the lights and time and phenomena to some extent, like a rainbow or a gust of wind or even an eclipse or a green ray, things like that. And this is the language of light not the language of binary pixels."
-Tacita Dean
www.tate.org.uk
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