Biography doris salcedo

Summary of Doris Salcedo

For decades, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been at the forefront of artmaking that seeks to provide space for mourning, grieving, and memory. Working directly with families of victims in collecting testimony and remembrances, Salcedo has taken on the task of investigating violence in Colombia and beyond, interpreting these experiences and translating them into abstracted yet impactful visual forms.

Accomplishments

• Working within sculpture and installation, Salcedo found a new way to insert and present the power of silence and absence in a medium known for materiality and monumentality.

  At the same time, Salcedo has been praised by critics for her evocative use of a wide variety of materials, from wood to rose petals and surgical threads.

• Salcedo's use of utilitarian objects, such as a blouse or a pair of shoes, builds on the legacy of Marcel Duchamp's "readymades".

  However, she has shown how everyday objects can contain within them stories and po