Tacita Dean, UK

Printmaking has become an essential part of Tacita Dean’s artistic practice since she first collaborated with Niels Borch Jensen’s printmaking studio more than 20 years ago.

Partly based on her films, partly created from found material like postcards or vintage photographs, she employs the printing techniques of photogravure, directgravure, offset lithography and screenprinting to transfer her poetic visual narratives into the realm of printmaking.

Tacita Dean’s large-scale Inferno, a ten-metre print in eight parts, shows Dante and Virgil’s descent into Hell. The prints show an inverted mountainscape in negative, inscribed with text, marks, splashes, and collaged elements. Like Dean’s other photogravures with BORCH Editions, the source is a found image: a series of nineteenth century photographs of a mountainous panorama.

Tacita Dean was born in 1965 in Canterbury, England lives and works in Berlin, London, and Los Angeles. She has been regularly collaborating with BORCH Editions since 2001.