Contributions

  • Basualdo, Carlos, 1964- - Contributor
  • Princenthal, Nancy. - Contributor
  • Huyssen, Andreas. - Contributor

Publication

2000 - Phaidon, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

39,750 words, Guess

Page Count

159 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing3337661

Classifications

  • LCCNB379.S25 A4 2000
  • DDC730/.92

Description

In her series "Tabula Rasa I-IV", Salcedo tackles the subject of rape, something that many women became the victim of during the Colombian civil conflicts and the continuing tyranny in that country. For this installation she destroyed tables, as symbols for life and living, and then put them back together with glue in a painstakingly detailed process. The reconstituted objects show the clear traces of their destruction. These everyday objects are inscribed, materially and metaphorically, with the impossibility of reversing an act of violence once it has been carried out.00Exhibition: Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, Germany (08.09. - 03.11.2019).

Description

Doris Salcedo is a sculptor who lives and works in Bogotá. Her humanitarian & political commitment is reflected in her work that is made from found objects left in the abandoned homes of missing people in Colombia.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • [Contemporary artists]

Other Editions

  • Doris SalcedoPhaidon2000-01-01

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