Doris Salcedo

Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Elizabeth Adan , Helen Molesworth

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English

University of Chicago Press
19 February 2015

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs

A mountain of chairs piled between buildings. Shoes sewn behind animal membranes into a wall. A massive crack running through the floor of Tate Modern. Powerful works like these by sculptor Doris Salcedo evoke the significance of bearing witness and processes of collective healing. Salcedo, who lives and works in Bogotá, roots her art in Colombia’s social and political landscape—including its long history of civil wars—with an elegance and poetic sensibility that balances the gravitas of her subjects. Her work is undergirded by intense fieldwork, including interviews with people who have suffered loss and endured trauma from political violence. In recent years, Salcedo has become increasingly interested in the universality of these experiences and has expanded her research to Turkey, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States.

Published to accompany Salcedo’s first retrospective exhibition and the American debut of her major work Plegaria muda, Doris Salcedo is the most comprehensive survey of her sculptures and installations to date. In addition to featuring new contributions by respected scholars and curators, the book includes over one hundred color illustrations highlighting many pieces from Salcedo’s thirty-year career. Offering fresh perspectives on a vital body of work, Doris Salcedo is a testament to the power of one of today’s most important international artists.

Contributions by: Elizabeth Adan, Helen Molesworth, Katherine Brinson
Edited by: Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Madeleine Grynsztejn
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 29mm, Width: 23mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 1.418kg
ISBN: 9780226244587
ISBN 10: 022624458X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 19 February 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julie Rodrigues Widholm is curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Madeleine Grynsztejn is the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Reviews for Doris Salcedo

"""[Salcedo's] first major retrospective . . . is an important one for American audiences, collecting as it does decades of sculptures that explore dark psychic places.""-- ""Village Voice, on the exhibition"" ""Gives readers an inspirational look at this seminal artist. . . . Recommended.""-- ""Choice"" ""Salcedo presents an important, even essential, means of thinking about memorializing incomprehensible suffering, about speaking of and to loss, about remembering what victims are no longer present to remind us of."" -- ""Forward, on the exhibition"""