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Doris Salcedo is a Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor who creates art as activism and repair. Her work explores themes of pain, trauma, and loss, using commonplace items such as furniture, clothing, and rose petals.
Doris Salcedo creates sculptures and public interventions that address the violence and conflict in her native Colombia and beyond. She uses materials such as cement, shoes, and roses to convey the absence and loss of victims and witnesses.
Learn about Doris Salcedo's life, work, and artistic legacy. She creates abstracted yet impactful visual forms to honor the memory and experience of victims of violence and trauma in Colombia and beyond.
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Doris Salcedo is a Colombian artist who creates sculptures and installations that bear witness to political violence, social death and loss. Her works are made of materials such as cement, soil, rose petals and furniture, and often involve public interventions and collaborations.
Jun 12, 2023 · Doris Salcedo’s Palimpsest (2013-17), now one of her most famous works, has been on show at the Beyeler Foundation since October last year. It is a huge floor-based installation in which...
Doris Salcedo creates artworks that express pain, trauma, and loss, inspired by her personal and political experiences in Colombia. See her biography, artworks, and film and audio on Tate's website.
Jun 9, 2023 · The Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has spent nearly four decades rendering the dead and disappeared visible in her art. But she does not believe in an afterlife.
