
© Doris Salcedo
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© Doris Salcedo
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© Doris Salcedo
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Doris Salcedo
Colombian, born 1958
Untitled, 1998
wood, cement, and metal
overall: 74 x 44 x 21 1/2 inches (187.96 x 111.76 x 54.61 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 1999
1999:9
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Doris Salcedo's memorials of broken furniture and concrete address the disappearances and deaths that permeate life in her native Colombia as a result of contemporary civil and drug wars. One chest of drawers collides into a second, representing the violence of everyday existence. A structure that once held valuable possessions is filled with an impenetrable, extremely heavy weight, analogous to the hearts, lives, and country of those involved in the violence.
Object label from a 2007 installation