Monet Hates Me: Tacita Dean in Conversation with Anne Rana
1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, CA 90049-1687
Wednesday, December 8 at 4:00 PM 5:00 PM
Ends Dec 8, 2021
Monet Hates Me, a project by visual artist Tacita Dean, explores her chance encounters with objects in the archives of the Getty Research Institute. As the Artist in Residence at the GRI from 2014–2015, Dean proposed that chance be her guide through the collections, and indeed it was: she researched randomly, meandering through boxes, objects, and images from sources as varied as medieval alchemy books to 20th century artist letters. In this conversation, Dean discusses her experiences working in the archives alongside independent scholar Anne Rana, and how her collaboration with Martyn Ridgewell during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns shaped the artist’s edition and complementary artist’s book.