Tacita Dean, Fatigues

Tacita Dean, Fatigues (detail), 2012

Currently on view at Documenta 13 (image via Contemporary Art Daily).
Ex-Finance Building, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany. June 6 – August 16, 2012

Tacita Dean has brought the mountains of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling a former banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; others are filled with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. There are sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels are a sort of storyboard, an evocation of an elsewhere. Dean’s drawings are, I think, about time: geological time, the flash of a life, a passing thought.”

—Adrian Searle in the Guardian.

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