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Passing By
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Copyright: Chris Whitley (chriswhitley) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 113 W: 35 N: 119] (1221)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-11-25
Categories: Artwork
Camera: Canon EOS 350D, Canon EF-S 17-85 mm IS USM
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/25 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-12-03 10:53
Viewed: 437
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Tate Modern on the South Bank of the Thames in London, Britain's national gallery of international modern art housed in the former Bankside Power Station.

This 'crack' running along the floor in the Turbine Hall of the gallery is a work by Doris Salcedo called Shibboleth.

From the Tate Modern website: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth is the first work to intervene directly in the fabric of the Turbine Hall. Rather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture or installation, Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the Turbine Hall. The concrete walls of the crevice are ruptured by a steel mesh fence, creating a tension between these elements that resist yet depend on one another. By making the floor the principal focus of her project, Salcedo dramatically shifts our perception of the Turbine Hall’s architecture, subtly subverting its claims to monumentality and grandeur. Shibboleth asks questions about the interaction of sculpture and space, about architecture and the values it enshrines, and about the shaky ideological foundations on which Western notions of modernity are built.

Whatever you think of this as art, it is certainly attracting the crowds and it is very interesting to watch the way in which people interact with it.
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Hello Chris! I like your modern approach on this one and I guess it suits the place also I have never been there (yet). Very attractive how this person walks through your photo slightly unsharp for the movement feeling. We can discuss now what art is but I guess not tonight and I find the "pale in pale" color and the crack very special. This is really good! Enjoy your evening, Barbara.

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