Each year Tate Britain asks an artist to create a Christmas tree for the gallery. This year Tacita Dean has decorated a Nordmann Fir with specially-made beeswax candles. Each afternoon at 16:00, as the sun sets and light fades from the gallery, the candles will be lit. They are designed to burn out as the gallery closes a1 18:00.
"This work chimes with the traditional idea of what a Christmas tree should look like. The candle-light evokes a sense of magic and wonder, and the act of lighting the tree is at once simple and theatrical, evoking the rituals of Christmas celebrations." Tate Britain website
Image: lighting the candles on Tacita Dean's Christmas tree, titled Weihnachtsbaum, 2009. Photo credit: Geoff Pugh
