The first contemporary artist to curate a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Tan takes a loosely psychiatric approach to the museum’s collection and archive
Where does the artist’s fascination with dogs spring from? And what does it tell us about her longstanding preoccupations with death and mortality, desire and difference?
From 2000: The artist had a Tate St Ives residency in 1998/99 when she worked from a temporary studio improvised in the lifeguard’s hut. Here, she recounts her experience
From 2012: Resonating throughout the exhibition is a belief that ideas ask for a physical form and that we always think with the help of the material world