Tacita dean: antigone

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 22 November 2019 - 23 February 2020. The focus of the exhibition is Tacita Deans ambitious 35mm double Cinemascope film work Antigone, 2018, based on the name of the artists older sister, references the Greek tragedian Sophocless Antigone from 440 BCE. Over the ages, numerous philosophers, writers and artists have interpreted the character of Antigone as a brave and principled woman. Known as the woman who dared to speak truth to power, themes in her eponymous play recur frequently in various guises, especially in times of discord and authoritarian rule. Deans Antigone is a personal, ambitious and stunningly beautiful work based on the gap between the other two plays in Sophocless trilogy, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. At the end of Oedipus Rex, the blind and lame King Oedipus banishes himself from Thebes and is led by Antigone into the wilderness only to arrive much later at a grove outside Athens in Oedipus at Colonus. Dean invited Canadian poet Anne Carson to read her poem TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) repeatedly throughout the film, which she discovered was also inspired by the gap between the Sophoclean plays. She asked actor Stephen Dillane to dress up as Oedipus

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 22 November 2019 - 23 February 2020. The focus of the exhibition is Tacita Deans ambitious 35mm double Cinemascope film work Antigone, 2018, based on the name of the artists older sister, references the Greek tragedian Sophocless Antigone from 440 BCE. Over the ages, numerous philosophers, writers and artists have interpreted the character of Antigone as a brave and principled woman. Known as the woman who dared to speak truth to power, themes in her eponymous play recur frequently in various guises, especially in times of discord and authoritarian rule. Deans Antigone is a personal, ambitious and stunningly beautiful work based on the gap between the other two plays in Sophocless trilogy, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. At the end of Oedipus Rex, the blind and lame King Oedipus banishes himself from Thebes and is led by Antigone into the wilderness only to arrive much later at a grove outside Athens in Oedipus at Colonus. Dean invited Canadian poet Anne Carson to read her poem TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) repeatedly throughout the film, which she discovered was also inspired by the gap between the Sophoclean plays. She asked actor Stephen Dillane to dress up as Oedipus