Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at the Tate Modern, London, until 13 Apr

Exhibition Description:

The Tate Modern will be displaying their latest commission in The Unilever Series. TH.2058 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster looks 50 years into the future, as the inhabitants of London take shelter in the Turbine Hall from a never-ending rain. The hall takes on the appearance of an epic film set and is filled with 200 bunk beds scattered with books, the animal forms of gargantuan sculptures, a massive LED screen playing edited extracts from science-fiction films, and piercing lights that suggest some unseen surveillance.

TH.2058 is a culmination of some of the artistic ideas that have preoccupied Gonzalez-Foerster over the last twenty years. For example, the notion of the shelter, is partly inspired by her ideas of both real and fictional situations when London has been under attack - by flooding, bombing or invasion.

The animal-related forms found in the sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen have mutated, and grown 25% in size.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (b. 1965, Strasbourg, France) is widely regarded as one of France's leading artists of the last two decades. She lives in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. The show is curated by Jessica Morgan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Tate Modern assisted by Ann Coxon, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern.

Description:

Image: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
TH.2058 2008
© Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Photo: Tate Photography

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Tate Modern
Turbine Hall
Opening hours: Sunday to Thursday, 10.00-18.00. Friday and Saturday, 10.00-22.00. Last admission into exhibitions 17.15 (Friday and Saturday 21.15).
Admission Free
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