Folkestone Triennial

Tacita Dean

Title: Amadeus (swell consopio)
Location: Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone Library, Grace Hill

Dean has made a 50min, 16mm anamorphic film, shot in real time, or crossing the Channel from Boulogne to Folkestone in an old fishing boat ('Amadeus') in rough seas at dawn in March 2008.

Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre

Tacita's Biography

Born Canterbury, 1965. Lives and works in Berlin.

Tacita Dean trained as a painter and now works in a variety of media. She is best known for her 16mm films in which issues of time and filmmaking are of central importance.

Recent solo exhibitions include

Guggenheim Museum – New York 2007
The Hugh Lane Gallery – Dublin 2007
Miami Art Central – Florida 2007
Schaulager – Munchenstein 2006

Recent group exhibitions include

On History – Madrid 2007
Universal Experience, MART Rovero – Italy 2006
4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art – Germany 2006
Universal Experience, Hayward Gallery – London 2005
The 51st Venice Biennale – Italy 2005

She has received many awards including the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize, the DAAD Fellowship, and in 1998 was short-listed for the Turner Prize.

See Tacita Dean's work
www.frithstreetgallery.com/