Navalny (2026) presents a large found slate board layered with Tacita Dean's signature combination of spray chalk and gouache, the surface alive with the accumulated marks of erasure, inscription, and atmospheric drift that define her blackboard works. The slate itself arrives as a readymade history, its previous life of writing and wiping embedded in the material, and Dean builds upon this palimpsest with imagery and text that memorializes the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in Arctic imprisonment in 2024. At 106.7 by 159.4 centimeters, the work commands a physical presence that mirrors its moral weight, the muted tones of chalk and the deeper opacity of gouache working together to conjure both tenderness and gravity. Dean has long used the blackboard format as a space where time becomes tangible, where the ghostly residue of past marks coexists with fresh inscription, and Navalny channels that sensibility toward urgent political testimony. Her approach resists the didactic, favoring instead an elegiac register in which the subject is honored through the qualities of the medium itself, its impermanence, its fragility, its capacity to hold light and shadow simultaneously. The found slate grounds the work in material contingency, reminding the viewer that history is always written on surfaces shaped by prior use. Currently on offer through Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles, Navalny represents a significant addition to Dean's ongoing body of blackboard works and holds particular resonance as a document of political conscience made in the specific formal language she has developed over decades. Collectors acquiring this work receive not only an exceptional example of her practice but also a piece that engages directly with one of the defining moral narratives of the early twenty-first century.