What Landscape Will Live On, After Us?

Antigone is Tacita Dean’s latest experimental film, a reflection on the natural and cultural landscape.

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The other evening I was at dinner with Tacita Dean, the famous British artist and filmmaker. She told me that her new exhibition is called “Landscape” and will open in the middle of the month at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (19.5–12.8.2018). It is the final part of a trilogy of exhibitions that began with “Still Life” at the National Gallery and “Portrait” at the National Portrait Gallery.

I have always compared Tacita’s work to a comet: something that must be seen but which only gives you one fleeting and romantic opportunity.

It moves the viewer with the beauty and simplicity of the images presented but, equally, is as monumental as the eternity to which it is devoted. Tacita’s work seems to be a memory for generations to come, like something coming from other dimensions but made of the same substance as all of us.

The “Landscape” project is accompanied by photographs and objects but centres on what promises to be the most important and ambitious film Tacita has ever made.