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Polish artist Miroslaw Balka's installation art, How It Is, is on display at Tate Modern in London. It is a black steel box that visitors can walk in and enter the darkness.
The installation art is located at the Turbine Hall. Visitors walk up the ramp and enter the 30 meters long, 10 meters wide, and 13 meters high steel box painted in black.
It is the work of Polish artist Miroslaw Balka who says entering the darkness could evoke a variety of responses in visitors, from fear to a bizarre feeling of comfort.
It is mounted on supports two metres high, so that, if you wish, you can walk under it without crouching. But if you do so, you’ll find that having several tons of steel held up by thin supports just above your head feels so oppressive that you’ll soon want to escape. But there is no escape.
Miroslaw Balka's work will be on display until April 5, 2010.
James Mitchell
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Scott Wu
Vancouver, Canada
lesbru
United Kingdom
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at 11:29 on October 13th, 2009
I want to see this exhibit so bad...