Two artists who have each built a career around the act of not seeing have finally made something together. At Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris, Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman present their first shared exhibition, anchored by a film diptych they created as a pair. The show opened on 19 October 2026 at the gallery's Marais space on rue du Temple and continues until 19 December.

The collaboration grew out of a meeting in February 2025, when talk turned quickly to drawing. Nauman had lately returned to the medium after a gap of almost twenty years, working in gold and silverpoint, and had also begun recording himself as he drew without looking, using a three-dimensional phone rig he devised himself. Dean, meanwhile, had been making silverpoint marks on blackboard surfaces. Both were drawn to what happens when control is loosened and chance is allowed into the work.

That shared curiosity became the film at the heart of the show. Dean shot a drawing session the two undertook together on 35mm stock, shaping the result into a silent diptych that runs four minutes and twenty seconds on an endless loop. The piece treats drawing less as a finished image on paper than as a bodily act, one that can be watched unfolding in time.

For visitors, the appeal lies in the pairing itself. Dean has long worked across film, print and drawing, while Nauman has spent six decades testing the limits of body, language and performance. Seeing their practices placed side by side, in a work neither could have made alone, gives the exhibition a charge that a solo show could not match.