Crack

A crack in the wall, a crack in the ceiling, a crack in the floor... This can appear as an inevitable sign of age in a building or in a street but ironically today is becoming a way of talking. A way of claiming and showing what is happening in the world as a phenomenon.
It’s what art has become into. It’s what art is now claiming. Modern artists are not interested in creating new forms or using new materials. They are offering to the world what it has created among years.
Doris Slacedo is provocative and strategic; an artist and a revolutionary. She got the perfect spot to pronounce her speechless speech. A scar that cannot be healed, not even time can make it disappear. The image of the world falling apart is what she conceived using a natural sign of age. She speaks about society, difference of worlds that are always going to be divided. Maybe she is thinking of the abyss that exist between poverty and richness, maybe she is thinking about racism, maybe she is thinking about the third world and the first world countries. Maybe it is a little bit of everything.
It’s a concept so profound that has been materialized in a very simple thing but so accurate. For me it was incredible to find an artificial crack appearing so natural. And it was much more surprising to find this event occurring in such an emblematic place.
London; one of the most expensive Cities in the world with one of the most named Monarchy still existing. The Tate Modern Gallery restored by one of the most named architects nowadays.
You have to be there to experience what is all about. It is a piece of art that is now part of the permanent exhibition of the Tate Modern Gallery.

It seems that the huge hall with enormous height provoked a natural crash that is growing. It reminds me the movies where the hero is standing in the middle of two rocks that are dividing in two parts. It can be part of a fiction movie in which you have to take part of the strongest side of the rock to survive. Otherwise you will fall to the abyss.

But it is not that, it is a quiet crash that has been created with hands and care. Doris must have had done a profound study of cracks, how they begin and how they take their natural course. I really don’t know how she managed to get the approval of the Authorities, and I cannot conceive how she created that perfect crack to appear so fucking natural.
And its going to be there forever because not even a refuel of the same material will be able to delete that sign. And it was meant to be like that. It was designed for her not to be erasable.
It is amazing, I really applause her for what she has done, I think the purity of a social problem has become an art installation in the Tate Modern Gallery. I bet this is the perfect example of how loud can it be a simple and quiet intervention.