Can you crack it?

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Yesterday I popped down to see Doris Salcedo‘s cracking new installation in the Tate Modern‘s Turbine Hall.  Salcedo has created a massive 548ft gash in the Tate’s flooring, her latest piece “Shibboleth”  addresses a ”long legacy of racism and colonialism that underlies the modern world”. 

Just like a lot of the visitors to the installation, I was left wondering how they done it. Did she dig into the actual foundations of the Tate? or did she create the crack in sections elsewhere, then section it up in the turbine hall it.  I thought i’d suss it out on visiting still in two minds, can anyone help?

John Alexander
Posted on Friday, 12th of October 2007 Permalink Comment (2)

Art Exhibition

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False-floor.

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Posted by Andy on Saturday, October 2007 at 3:41 PM

They dug a trench. Then placed cast sections in with the crack hand finished. Answer was in the paper last week.

Posted by James Greenfield on Monday, October 2007 at 10:49 AM

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