ARTHOUSTON 22
BLIND FOLLY THIS EXHIBITION MARKS THE INAUGUR AL SURVEY OF
TACITA DEAN’ S OEUVRE
BY ARTHUR DEMICHELI
The Menil Collection proudly presents Tacita Dean: Blind Folly, the first major U.S. museum survey of the celebrated British European visual artist Tacita Dean. Dean, who resides in Berlin and Los Angeles, is renowned for her unique, unmediated, and chance-based drawing processes across various mediums, including film and printmaking. Blind Folly—a playful British phrase connoting foolishness— aptly captures Dean’s approach to art, where she allows the inherent behaviors of her mediums to dictate the results. Emphasizing the role of chance and fate in creativity, Dean describes her process as “how to find by not looking.”