Salcedo is a sculptor who was born in 1958 in Colombia. After obtaining her bachelors in Colombia, she traveled to New York where she obtained her MFA at NYU. Her sculpture and installations are based on her experiences from living in Colombia, and usually are based around everyday items of furniture. According to Wikepedia, “Doris Salcedo addresses the question of forgetting and memory in her installation artwork. In pieces such as Unland: The Orhan’s Tunic from 1997and the La Casa Viuda series from the early 1990’s, Salcedo takes ordinary household items, such as a chair and table, and transforms them into memorials for victims of the Civil War in Columbia.” Andreas Huyssen, a writer and professor at Columbia University writes about Salcedo’s exhibition Unland: The Orphan’s Tunic, stating a seemingly mundane table, when looked at closely, “captures the viewer’s imagination in its unexpected, haunting visual and material presence.”
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http://www.whitecube.com/artists/salcedo/
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