Tacita Dean on Filming Frescoes Through a Macro Lens

British artist Tacita Dean is best known for her experimental work in film, her cinematic portraits focussed on evoking a sense of history, time and place, rather than following traditional narrative threads. She frequently exploits the ways in which her chosen medium allows for the capturing and reconfiguring of the world as we usually view it, often playing with the power of the camera's lens to transform architectural spaces. Consider her 2009…