Two visitors to the latest Tate Modern installation came a cropper during a private viewing this week. The 167-metre long ‘crack’ in the floor of the Turbine Hall lured the pair into losing their footing before stepping into the fissure. Created by Doris Salcedo, a Colombian artist who claims to have spent a year constructing the sculpture, Shibboleth 2007 is said to represent ‘racial hatred and division in society’. Salcedo said that the piece took five weeks to install, but will not reveal how it was created. ArtsWom suspects a false floor is involved.

Despite not suffering serious injury, the duo who stumbled into the crack must surely be severely embarrassed. A spokesperson for the Tate said there were no plans to erect barriers around the crack, and over 12,000 visitors had successfully avoided injury on the first day of public viewing. ArtsWom imagines that the pair at the private viewing were possibly on the outside of a couple of glasses of something fizzy.

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