ON TIME AND VISION

"Our actual experience of time is necessarily highly localised. But our vision of the past, and to some extent also of the future, can potentially encompass a vast and distant panorama. We are small fish, a kind of plankton in the huge sea of time; but just occasionally we can look over the surface and glimpse a little of how vast an ocean we live in."
-Simon Crowhurst
'A Practical Approach to Mapping Time'

Using 16mm film, TACITA DEAN cuts up, figuratively, strips of time, manipulating sequence, speed and duration. Her work is an articulation of time and space that comments on the fragility and loss of memory itself.