Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean, one of the internationally most prestigious contemporary artists of today, is holding her first-ever solo exhibition in Finland, including her latest film, “A Cloud makes itself”. The show will be open from February 26 to May 3, 2020 at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition, curated by EMMA director Pilvi Kalhama, borrows from Dean’s existing body of work, in addition to which the artist has created several new pieces for this show. The show features recent key works in which Dean explores portraiture, painting, the ephemerality of natural events and the layers of time. Dean, a champion of slowness and concentration, draws attention to details and encourages us to stop and observe the world. The exhibition rewards the viewer who is prepared to give time to the works.

The exhibition displays seven films, including Dean’s ambitious chalkboard drawing “Chalk Fall” (2018), her recent series of 80 monoprints on found postcards, “Pantone Pairs” (2019), presented for the first time at EMMA and two works from the Saastamoinen Foundation’s art collection, Quatemary and A Book End of Time.