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Article: Tacita Dean: Peter Blum. (New York).(Brief Article)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Flea markets are famously fecund places. Treasure troves of detritus, they offer a rich archaeology of abandoned objects, each with its own mute, often melancholy history. For Tacita Dean, an artist deeply engaged with time's ravages and lost or imagined narratives, the flea market has become a hunting ground for source material of all kinds. Here, in her debut as a printmaker, Dean showed three portfolios from 2001, two of which consist exclusively of images she found in fleamarket photo bins.
An artist's book is the main work of a two-part piece titled Floh (German for "flea"; Dean, a Briton, recently settled in Berlin). Printed in a copiously democratic ...
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