2009-10-12
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The Turbine Hall often feels like an indoor playground. I was thinking about how to create limits, to bring calm and quiet to the place, to discipline people’s gestures. I also wanted to create something like a photographic black hole,” he adds. “Every day millions of photographs are taken in London. I wanted to create a place, a situation, where people would not be able to take good pictures. Their experience will be more intense.
Miroslaw Balka describing his installation at the Turbine Hall, How It Is, in the Times (as noted by Chris Heathcote).