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Shibboleth
This 548-foot-long crack created in the floor of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern,
London, drew attention to the postcolonial fissures in society that persist today.
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Shibboleth (detail), 2007 +
Length: 548 ft. (167 m)
Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007
Photo: Stephen White
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Shibboleth, 2007 +
Concrete and steel
Length: 548 ft. (167 m)
Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007
Photo: Sergio Clavijo
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“It’s a scar that is now in the museum. So the piece, it’s still there and I find it very
symbolic and very poetic—the absence is still present.”
—Roberto Uribe
Interview with MCA Chicago
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