9/15/2023 0 Comments Tanks at tate modern.The burnt markings derive from Indigenous textiles and aerial maps, reflecting the different histories bound up in the urban development of the city of Toronto, Canada, where the work was originally installed. Reveries of an Underground Forest consists of upright rolls of industrial carpet which resemble tree trunks, singed with geometric patterns. This forest of coiled carpets maps histories of displacement Here, they are presented as the fertile soil on which the museum lies, and from which new growth can emerge. The Tanks are historically generative spaces, having once fuelled the building using oil, itself a natural product originating from the earth. Displays are curated along shared themes, foregrounding ideas of environmental knowledge, cyclicality and regeneration. ![]() You are invited to imagine the Tanks as a conceptual ‘clearing in the forest’.
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