Tacita Dean is a British Conceptual artist known for her esoteric films. The artist explores both specific historical events and formal qualities of the 16 mm film, as seen in her Disappearance at Sea (1996) and The Green Ray (2001). Dean’s use of celluloid film, photography, installation, and drawing, seems an act of mourning for the analog world of documents and photographs as it passes into the realm of a massive digital archive. “A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting,” she reflected. “Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.” Born in 1965 in Canterbury, United Kingdom, she studied at Falmouth University and received her MA from the Slade School of...