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Huge Crack Splits Tate Gallery Floor

October 9, 2007 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments

Art gallery installations are really getting interesting. In London, the Tate Modern already made gallery visits fun with its spiraling giant slide installation, and now the newest exhibition in the enormous Turbine Hall is quite simply a crack in the floor.

The installation by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo is titled Shibboleth, and what might look like a crack in the floor to some is actually, apparently, hugely meaningful:

It represents borders, the experience of immigrants, the experience of segregation, the experience of racial hatred.

Interestingly, when the installation is over, Tate staff will "remove" it simply by filling in the crack, leaving just a concrete scar behind. And don't fret: The crack has been approved by health and safety experts and the gallery has large warning signs so that nobody falls in.

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· Tate Modern Reveals Crack [Telegraph]
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[Photo: Tate Modern]