Tag Archives: Salcedo

A crack is a a crack is a crack

November 27, 2007 – 21:40

txt from: Crowds are suffering for their art at the Tate Modern
Four of the 15 accidents, some of which resulted in minor injuries, have been reported to the Health and Safety Executive. The museum has considered using Perspex glass to cover Shibboleth 2007, which opened on October 8 runs the full 167 metres (548 feet) [...]

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Uncomfortable cracks

October 10, 2007 – 8:47

Tate Turbine Hall host colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s work “Shibboleth” from 9 october to 6 april 2008. We can find a lot of stuff in that fracture.
The history of racism, Salcedo writes, runs parallel to the history of modernity, and is its untold dark side.
For hundreds of years, Western ideas of progress and [...]

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