ABSTRACT
An attic-like space: bare, low and tightly packed with stacked furniture, with chairs, tables, cupboards, sofas, lamps, boxes and ship models, partially covered with sheets and plastic tarps (fig. 1). The camera traces in stills the room's shape, fixes on some sections of the wall, shows markings on its white and black surface: “fig. 1,” “f e.” or “fig. 12,” “museum,” “silence,” “section cinema” – markings which appear enigmatic within the surrounding cramped and blocked space. 1 The site is the basement of Burgplatz 12, Düsseldorf, the year is 2002, and 16 mm color film is the tool British artist Tacita Dean uses to approach the former studio and exhibition-space of Marcel Broodthaers. Thirty years earlier, the Belgian artist had rented and used it in preparation for his show “Section des Figures” at the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. 2 Now transformed into the storage space of the Düsseldorf City Museum (Stadtmuseum), in 1971–72 it had also served as the “Section Cinéma,” as the seventh episode of Broodthaers's twelve-part exhibition project Musée d'Art Moderne. Départment des Aigles, carried out between 1968 and 1972, which the show at the Kunsthalle was part of as well. Tacita Dean, <italic>Section Cinema (Homage to Marcel Broodthaers</italic>), 2002, 16 mm color film and optical sound, 13 min. © Tacita Dean Tacita Dean's space has a low ceiling, filled with various pieces of stacked furniture, including tables, cupboards, and ship models. There are numbers marked on the ceiling. https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003697329/ab8c022b-5032-48de-8c3c-c2fc60292625/content/pg177_1.jpg"/>
