Subject of chalkboard drawing also composed of chalk

This cliff in Chalk Drop 2018 (illustrated) appears stable, like the enormous wall of a fortress, however on nearer inspection, we see the rough waves churning beneath, and realise the cliff-facial area is supplying way, slipping into the ocean. Tacita Dean’s monumental chalkboard drawing at the Gallery of Modern-day Art (GOMA) in Brisbane through the exhibition ‘Air’ evokes the well known White Cliffs of Dover which are eroding evermore quickly as a outcome of climate adjust.

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GOMA, until 23 April 2023

Element of ‘Chalk Fall’

As Dean began to make Chalk Fall, a shut mate was identified with a tumour. ‘Every day’, she recounts, ‘I wrote the date on the board, chalking chalk with chalk in a sedimentation of time and emotion that experienced a awful constructive intensity.’ We can also make out chalked notes this sort of as ‘aerial view’ and ‘fade to black’ that are anchored in Dean’s follow as a filmmaker. Chalk Tumble is at as soon as a drawing, a journal, a history painting and the document of a deep friendship taken care of throughout an ocean.

Tacita Dean ‘Chalk Fall’

Setting up the 9 panels at GOMA

Look at: Tacita Dean introduces ‘Chalk Fall’

https://www.youtube.com/view?v=T6yniwuIDGU

Check out: Consider a peek at the exhibition ‘Air’

https://www.youtube.com/enjoy?v=hpnWQzwmOIU

Edited extract from the accompanying exhibition publication Air obtainable at the QAGOMA Keep and on the net. 

‘Air’ / Gallery of Modern Art, Gallery 1.1 (The Fairfax Gallery), Gallery 1.2 & Gallery 1.3 (Eric and Marion Taylor Gallery) / 26 November 2022 to 23 April 2023

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