Shibboleth

Identifier: P20334
Title: Shibboleth
Description: Shibboleth I is a medium-size digital photograph by the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo that depicts the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London, with a long narrow crack running along its floor. The print is part of a portfolio of four photographs each showing different views of the same scene, including Shibboleth II (Tate P20335), Shibboleth III (Tate P20336) and Shibboleth IV (Tate P20337), and the portfolio as a whole is number one in an edition of forty-five plus ten artist’s proofs. The photographs were made as part of Salcedo’s 2007 installation project for the Unilever Series at Tate Modern, also titled Shibboleth, which involved the artist creating a deep fissure in the floor of the Turbine Hall that stretched from one end of the gallery to the other, into which she placed a concrete cast of a Colombian rock face with a wire chain-link fence set into it. These photographs are digital composites made up of images of the Turbine Hall seen from four different angles and photographs that Salcedo took of a small-scale model of the cracked floor that she made in her studio in Bogotá, Colombia.
Artist: Doris Salcedo
Date: 2007
Subject: Installations (Art)
Medium: digital photographs
Dimensions: Image: 641 × 468 mm
Paper Support 755 × 568 mm
Provenance: Presented by the artist, White Cube, London and Alexander and Bonin, New York 2008
Rights: @ Tate
Source: Shibboleth I