daydreamer
London

Worth visiting!

How did they do it?!

Earlier this year, there was an art installation in the Turbine Hall called Shibboleth. It looked as though, somehow, the artist had managed to gouge open the floor to create a giant 548ft long fissure which ran throughout the hall and was up to 3ft deep in places.

I remember reading about it in the paper (it became infamous because some visitors actually fell down into the crack) and wondering how on earth it had been created. You can see pictures of the crack and the secret behind its creation here

When I visited recently, the installation was long gone but traces of it remain. They decided to fill in the crack with concrete, so you can still see where it used to snake across the floor. Even filled in, I thought that the scale of it was impressive and wished that I had gone to see it earlier.


Comments:

heard about that. i went the other day and someone said do they still have the big crack in the floor and i was like what? and they explained. sad to have missed that.

sipes23
Crystal Lake

Saw it

It was weird to know what that anomaly in the concrete was. It was as if there were two exhibits in the turbine hall, which is a cool space in its own right.


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