Doris Salcedo

The Materiality of Mourning

Mary Schneider Enriquez, Doris Salcedo, Narayan Khandekar

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Harvard University Art Museums,U.S.
03 November 2016

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

A compelling look at Doris Salcedo’s works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself

Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) creates works that address political violence and oppression. This pioneering book, which focuses on Salcedo’s works from 2001 to the present, examines the development and evolution of her approach. These sculptures have pushed toward new extremes, incorporating organic materials—rose petals, grass, soil—in order to blur the line between the permanent and the ephemeral.

This insightful text illuminates the artist’s practice: exhaustive personal interviews and deep research joined with painstaking acts of making that both challenge limits and set new directions in materiality. Mary Schneider Enriquez convincingly argues for viewing Salcedo’s oeuvre not just through a particular theoretical lens, such as violence studies or trauma and memory studies, but for the profound way the artist engages with and expands the traditions of sculpture as a medium.

Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums

Exhibition Schedule:

Harvard Art Museums

(11/04/16–04/09/17)

By: Mary Schneider Enriquez
Contributions by: Doris Salcedo, Narayan Khandekar
Imprint: Harvard University Art Museums,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 1.315kg
ISBN: 9780300222517
ISBN 10: 0300222513
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 03 November 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Schneider Enriquez is the Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums.

Reviews for Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning

A particularly useful introduction to Salcedo and her art . . . Schneider Enriquez's thorough study makes Salcedo's methods, strategies, and matter available for both aficionados and newcomers. --Alison Fraunhar, Woman's Art Journal 2017 Acknowledgement of Excellence at the New England Book Show