Name/Title
Doris Salcedo : the materiality of mourningEntry/Object ID
N9500.S243.A4 2016Description
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.Context
Accompanies the exhibition "Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning," on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from November 4, 2016 through April 9, 2017.Lexicon
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artist monographs, sculpture--colombia, women artists--colombia, sculpture--exhibitionsLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Mary Schneider Enriquez, Doris Salcedo, Narayan KhandekarPublisher
Harvard Art MuseumsDate Published
2016ISBN
9781891771699, 9780300222517Notes
Length: 175General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
In Context: Violence and Contemporary Art in Colombia -- Salcedo's Influences: Artists, Works, Practices -- The Six Visual Strategies -- Organic and Ephemeral: Materiality in Salcedo's Most Recent Works -- Coda -- Inherent Vice and the Ship of Theseus / Narayan Khandekar -- Artist Biography & Exhibition History.