DUGiDocsAllò que no es veu en una fotografia: entre Tacita Dean i W.G. Sebald = What is not seen in a photograph: between Tacita Dean and W.G. Sebald
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This text addresses the relationship between
image, narrative and archive in a selection
of works by the British artist Tacita Dean
(1965), focusing on those of her pieces that
can be more easily related to the literature of
the German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001).
In these works, the artist explores issues
such as the construction of individual and
collective memory, the use of found images
versus newly created images, the relationship
between documentary reality and creative
fiction, and the importance of the material
medium in the creation of an artwork.
Likewise, she questions modernist praise of
the grid as a formal element that cancels out
any narrative notion, and suggests a new relationship
between narrative texts and visual
images from an original and fruitful point of
view. This relationship can also be found in
the work of the German writer, whose literature
has been a constant and rewarding point
of reference for Dean. The article analyses
these issues to conclude that they can both be considered archival artists, one of the
most productive trends in the artistic contemporary
practices of the last two decades,
and that their works make an important contribution
to the resignification of images in an
era of visual saturation and banality
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