ON MEMORY and photographic form "The mediums of art are concretions of time. Such concretion takes a different form in each medium and in each work. Paintings and sculptures delay, condense and spread out time in their own way. So do photographs, films and videos. Each medium and each work posits a distinct relation between past, present and future. The photograph re-presents the past as present in the trace of its absence. Film presents a record of the past's passing which is recreated in the present. Video acts as a real-time flowing correlate of the past as present." -Michael Newman 'Medium and Event in the Work of Tacita Dean' Dean's work, whether photography, film or drawing, links a narrative event with the historicity of the medium through which it is re-presented. Each work becomes a reconstruction of time and place, often highlighted by fragments of lost memories and an overwhelming sense of loss and uncertainty.