2001

Tacita Dean

The Sinking of the SS Plympton

Tacita Dean
The Sinking of the SS Plympton, 2001
From Russian Ending
Photogravure, 54 x 79.4 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, acquistion supported by Thomas Koerfer
2006-136-006

© Tacita Dean

b. 1965 (Canterbury, UK), lives and works in Berlin, DE
Film is Tacita Dean’s principal medium. She explores past and present architectural values, for example, in the guise of a moving tableau. She integrates found objects into her drawings, collages and photographs, freighting them with factual and fictional stories.