Tate Modern unveils the new Turbine Hall installation

Centre-stage in the new installation, entitled TH.2058, is a larger-than-life model of a massive spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, who herself took on the Turbine Hall commission in 1999 Photograph: David Levene/Guardian

Apocalyptic books like Farenheit 451 and The War of the Worlds are placed on each of Gonzalez-Foerster's blue-and-yellow steel beds Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

Trapped ... A gallery assistant gets stuck in Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/Press Association

Technology is also a theme. As well as radios, the installation features clips from sci-fi movies including Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Mission to Mars Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features

In addition to Bourgeois, who was also featured at a Tate Modern retrospective just last year, many will recognise sculptures by Henry Moore and Bruce Nauman Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features

As visitors enter the installation, they are subjected to the sound of pelting rain Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

Born in Strasbourg in 1965, the artist now lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. She claims to have been inspired by the 2005 bombings in London Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

The global credit crisis was apparently also an inspiration. 'We are in (a period of) intense turbulence - fasten your seatbelts,' Gonzalez-Foerster told reporters Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

'It's not a pessimistic work,' she said. 'It has a dark side but if you spend more time in it, I hope that you get the feeling that it's not only dark' Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty