Teignmouth Electron, Cayman Brac

Details

Tacita Dean (B. 1965)
Teignmouth Electron, Cayman Brac
black and white photograph
40 ¼ x 27 1/8in. (102.5 x 69cm.)
Executed in 1999, this work is number one from an edition of six

Provenance

Frith Street Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

Literature

T. Dean, Teignmouth Electron, London 1999 (another example illustrated, frontispiece, unpaged).
Tacita Dean: Recent films and other works, exh. cat., London, Tate Britain, 2001 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 12).

Exhibited

Basel, Schaulager, Tacita Dean. Analogue: Films, Photographs, Drawings 1991 - 2006. Francis Alÿs. “The Sign Painting Project (1993-97): A Revision”, 2006, p.129.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

'I do not want to give these images explanations: descriptions by the finder about how and where they were found, or guesses as to what stories they might or might not tell. I want them to keep the silence of the fleamarket; the silence they had when I found them; the silence of the lost object. (T. Dean, quoted at https://www.frithstreetgallery.com/shows/view/floh/).

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