Art Review Instead of the slick stream of internet and AI imagery, the moving pictures projected onto a 31-foot-tall column are insistently material.

October 28, 2026 — 4 min read

Installation view of Tacita Dean: FILM (photo Monica Nouwens, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London; all other photos Tara Anne Dalbow/ Hyperallergic )

LOS ANGELES — There is a certain irony to the formal correspondence between the endless scroll of a social media feed and a spool of 35mm photographic film. But what Tacita Dean’s monumental 2011 installation, FILM , makes clear is that the similarities end there.…