The phrase "cavernous space" refers to a large and empty area, resembling a cave or a big open room. It implies that the space is vast and empty, similar to the inside of a deep cave. Full definition
Given the terrible seriousness with which the gallery takes him, there is a terrible temptation to view it all as a Dadaist performance and to think that the one person who should have taken up the offer to visit every site should be the ghost of Jacques Tati, wandering the brightly light, cavernous spaces of white walls and spaced objects in a vision of the universality of a modern art without context, without place and without soul. (artmarketmonitor.com)
For the exhibition, the Long Museum (West Bund) has transformed its galleries into cavernous spaces tailored to best showcase Zhan Wang's «site in flux» and «cycles of forms». (thelongmuseum.org)
His approach to tackling the potentially cavernous spaces at Kingly Street has been to divide the gallery with floor to ceiling PVC strip curtaining. (contemporaryartsociety.org)