Fiona Tan has created Ascent through a montage of over 4000 found still images of Mt. Fuji from the past 150 years. Ascent unfolds as a contemplative visual essay. The work is at once a rumination on…
Tacita Dean’s Michael Hamburger is a moving portrayal of the poet and translator, a resident of Middleton in Suffolk and great friend of W.G. Sebald. For its 28 minutes, the film quietly observes the…
An all-consuming vortex, a sports car with the eyes of a cat and a carnivalesque procession of ten giraffes. The work of the German artist Raphaela Vogel offers a gateway to surprising worlds that…
Rosemarie Trockel used these little cars in a film that she made for the 1999 Venice Biennale. Her installation consisted of three films projected in three different rooms, representing the past, the…
Inspiration for One Hundred Steps (2020) came from Irish filmmaker Bob Quinn’s documentaries about the historical relationship between Ireland and North Africa. According to Quinn, who makes a cameo…
Commissioned to make a work in relation to the writer, W. G. Sebald, Tacita Dean took as her subject the Berlin born British poet and translator Michael Hamburger whom Sebald meets in a chapter of his…
This photograph came about as a part of Isaac Julien's PLAYTIME, a video work set across three cities defined by their relation to capital: Dubai, the new center for wealth in the world; London, a…
The seeds for the installation The Essential were sown in 2002, while Martin and Inge Riebeek were working on a piece commissioned by a juvenile penitentiary in Veenhuizen: Heaven at 4 am. This…
Fiona Tan is best known for her skillfully crafted and moving installations, in which explorations of identity, memory and history are key. Tan’s artworks deal with the question of the gaze – both the…
Banner's film Tête à Tête is a scene of unrequited love acted out by two mechanically operated windsocks, basically a sculptural bonnet drama, set in the romantic grounds of the Yorkshire Sculpture…