Tate Shadows
Fine Art

Tate Shadows

The same hall, same light, different hour

What Tate People did with figures, Tate Shadows does with what figures leave behind. The turbine hall floor as a projection surface. The person is gone. The light keeps the record.

17 images
London
Long shadow of a single figure stretching across the turbine hall floor 1 / 17
Multiple overlapping shadows, their owners out of frame 2 / 17
Shadow of a child beside the shadow of an adult, the size difference stark 3 / 17
Shadow of a figure with arms raised, caught mid-gesture 4 / 17
Diagonal shadow cutting across a seam in the concrete floor 5 / 17
Four shadows radiating from a group, low winter light behind them 6 / 17
A single shadow, perfectly isolated, head and shoulders only 7 / 17
Shadows merging at the edges, two people overlapping without touching 8 / 17
Shadow of a figure pausing at the threshold between light and dark 9 / 17
Long corridor of shadows, people moving in parallel lines 10 / 17
Shadow of hands on a pale wall, gesture preserved without context 11 / 17
Three shadows in movement, each pointing a different direction 12 / 17
Shadow of a figure leaning against a column, the column casting its own shadow beside them 13 / 17
Abstract: shadow of a railing falling across a shadow of a person 14 / 17
Shadow of a running figure, elongated by low sun angle 15 / 17
Empty floor with a single residual shadow, the person already gone 16 / 17
Final image: the hall in near-darkness, shadow barely distinguishable from ground 17 / 17
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