Tacita Dean's most ambitious film work to date, Boots , receives its UK premier at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The three screen 16mm film is a study of memory, architecture and time. Filmed in a deserted Art-Deco villa called the casa Serralves in Porto, Portugal, Its central figure ---the charismatic club-footed figure 'Boots' tours the empty rooms of the grand house recounting perhaps real perhaps fictional tales of the past lives and loves of those who may once of inhabited this place.

Boots is presented in conjunction with The Royal Institute of British Architects, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris.

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Tacita Dean was born in Canterbury, Uk in 1965, she studied at Falmouth School of Art and The Slade School Of Fine Art. Recent solo exhibitions have included; De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands (2004), ARC Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2003). Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 2002. Tacita Dean lives and works in Berlin and London.

© 2004 Frith Street Gallery