Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is the latest artist to rise to the challenge of decking out Tate Modern's famously capacious Turbine Hall. We've had a giant crack and a scary spider, as well as a post-apocalyptic hazy sun... and this latest installation corresponds to the troublesome pattern of end-of-world imaginings. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is one of France's leading artists and her work "TH.2058" involves 200 metal bunk beds, each with a book on a suitably alarming end-timey theme. There's HG Wells's War of the Worlds, for example, and J G Ballard's The Drowned World. The scene is set 50 years from now and the work has a serious message. But can you take it seriously? Critical reactions have been mixed so far.
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The spider obviously references Louise Bourgeois's famous spider sculptures. Also reminds me a bit of the monsters you used to be able to release in early 90s versions of Sim City.
