Rows of bunk beds symbolising an apocalyptic vision of London in the future have gone on display at Tate Modern.
TH.2058 is the ninth of the gallery's Turbine Hall commissions and has been created by French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.
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Click here to view a slideshow of the TH.2058 exhibitionIt follows previous headline-grabbing successes in this space such as the giant subterranean crack which stretched the length of the floor of Tate Modern and a series of giant slides.
Gonzalez-Foerster's work is set 50 years from now and is inspired by both real and fictional scenarios of London under attack "whether by flooding, bombing or invasion".
She has imagined the city's population taking shelter in the Turbine Hall from never-ending rain.
Piercing lights are said to suggest some kind of unseen surveillance and the installation is also comprised of gargantuan animal sculptures, such as a 65ft (20m) high flamingo by the artist Alexander Calder which has mutated in size.
The giant spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeios – the artist who launched the Turbine Hall series in 2000 – has also grown in size by 25%.
The main part of the installation is 200 yellow and blue bunk bed frames with books such as JG Ballard's The Drowned World and Mike Davis' Dead Cities based on top of them.
A giant screen overlooks the work, playing extracts from sci-fi and experimental films.
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