Doris Salcedo

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Doris Salcedo

Artist's Name:

Doris Salcedo

Preferred medium:

installation

birth year:

1958

Nationality:

City:

Bogotá

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Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth is the first work to intervene directly in the fabric of the Turbine Hall. Rather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture or installation, Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the Turbine Hall. The concrete walls of the crevice are ruptured by a steel mesh fence, creating a tension between these elements that resist yet depend on one another. By making the floor the principal focus of her project, Salcedo dramatically shifts our perception of the Turbine Hall's architecture, subtly subverting its claims to monumentality and grandeur. Shibboleth asks questions about the interaction of sculpture and space, about architecture and the values it enshrines, and about the shaky ideological foundations on which Western notions of modernity are built. In particular, Salcedo is addressing a long legacy of racism and colonialism that underlies the modern world. A 'shibboleth' is a custom, phrase or use of language that acts as a test of belonging to a particular social group or class. By definition, it is used to exclude those deemed unsuitable to join this group. 'The history of racism', Salcedo writes, 'runs parallel to the history of modernity, and is its untold dark side'. For hundreds of years, Western ideas of progress and prosperity have been underpinned by colonial exploitation and the withdrawal of basic rights from others. Our own time, Salcedo is keen to remind us, remains defined by the existence of a huge socially excluded underclass, in Western as well as post-colonial societies. (Tate Modern)

important exhibitions from Doris Salcedo

Exhibition	Location	City	Country	Date
Doris Salcedo	MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo	Rom	IT	15.03.2012

Plegaria Muda - Doris Salcedo	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Camjap)	Lissabon	PT	11.11.2011

Doris Salcedo - Plegaria Muda	Moderna Museet Malmö	Malmö	SE	21.05.2011

45. Biennale Venedig 1993	Biennale Venedig	Venedig	IT	13.06.1993

Contemporary Galleries	MoMA - Museum of Modern Art	New York	US	17.11.2011

Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s	Walker Art Center	Minneapolis	US	30.06.2012

Residue of Memory	Aspen Art Museum	Aspen	US	18.05.2012

TRA. EDGE OF BECOMING	PALAZZO FORTUNY Venedig	Venedig	IT	04.06.2011

Schöne Aussichten	Neue Galerie Kassel	Kassel	DE	24.11.2011

CONTEMPLATING THE VOID: INTERVENTIONS IN THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	New York	US	12.02.2010