Saturday 14 March 2009, 15.00

Parc Central, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 2006, video, 50 min

'This collection of films from cities across the globe provides further evidence of Gonzalez-Foerster's unmistakable sense of urban ambience and tropical melancholia. In a conversation between the artist and Jacques Rancière published in Art Press, the philosopher, reflecting on the dialogue between East and West in her work, observes, 'What is interesting is what they over there have done with what they borrowed from us here. You don't get that here, maybe because we have the idea that there are no more journeys left.' That may be the case, but after seeing Gonzalez-Foerster's films I want to go places: Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Taipei, and of course Japan, though I'm not sure if her Japan really exists or whether it's a semiotic fantasy after Roland Barthes.'

- Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, December 2006

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster exhibition