Blind Folly or How Tacita Dean Draws
Blind Folly or How Tacita Dean Draws considers the unique and timely implications of how British-born European artist Tacita Dean draws. Covering over three decades of work, from sweeping chalk landscapes to fleeting celestial phenomena on film, White proposes that the artist approaches drawing as an indeterminate journey of fate and folly, chance and medium. She argues that Dean’s strategy of adopting blindness to make an image is an urgent response to our culturally, technologically, and ecologically unstable moment. The text, illustrated with more than forty images, is based on seven years of conversations between the author and the artist.
About the Author: Michelle White is senior curator at the Menil Collection and the curator of Tacita Dean: Blind Folly.
