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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.
 View largerConcrete and steel
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

View largerConcrete and steel

Shibboleth (detail), 2007 +
Length: 548 ft. (167 m)
Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007
Photo: Marcus Leith/Andrew Dunkley
 View largerConcrete and steel
Shibboleth (detail), 2007 +
Length: 548 ft. (167 m)
Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007
Photo: Sergio Clavijo
 View largerConcrete and steel
Shibboleth (detail), 2007 +
Length: 548 ft. (167 m)
Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007
Photo: Sergio Clavijo
 View largerConcrete and steel
Shibboleth, 2007 +
Length: 548 ft. (167 m)
Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007
Photo: Sergio Clavijo
 View largerConcrete and steel
Shibboleth, 2007 +
Length: 548 ft. (167 m)
Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2007
Photo: Marcus Leith/Andrew Dunkley
 View largerPhoto: Sergio Clavijo
View of Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2008 +
 “I remember very clearly one day she came to us with this photocopy, a picture of
Turbine Hall with a pencil drawing on top, a crack, and she said, ‘Okay, I want to crack
this space into two—into halves.’”
—Carlos Granada
Interview with MCA Chicago

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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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