“Babel” by Cildo Meireles

Artist: Cildo Meireles (Brazil)
Title: Babel
Year: 2001
Installation view at: Tate Modern, London
Photo Credits: Barbara Picci

“Babel 2001 is a large-scale sculptural installation that takes the form of a circular tower made from hundreds of second-hand analogue radios that the artist has stacked in layers. The radios are tuned to a multitude of different stations and are adjusted to the minimum volume at which they are audible. Nevertheless, they compete with each other and create a cacophony of low, continuous sound, resulting in inaccessible information, voices or music.
In describing this work, Meireles refers to a ‘tower of incomprehension’ (quoted in Tate Modern 2008, p.168)…”
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