Are you sitting uncomfortably?
The Colombian Doris Salcedo, the next artist to tackle Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, takes familiar objects and makes them seem strangely unsettling.
At some time during last July, visitors to Tate Modern may have noticed a Latin American woman in her late forties hanging around in the Turbine Hall. Every day for more than a week she would arrive in the morning and settle in for the day, loitering with intent, watching other visitors and their reactions to their surroundings, examining the contours of the building, assessing the feel and architectural language of that vast, iconic space.
Read full article (Times, April 25, 2007)
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