Doris Salcedo

By Charles Merewether, Doris Salcedo, Dan Cameron

Subjects: South america, biography, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Salcedo, Doris, Sculpture, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Women artists, Art, Political aspects of Art, Criticism and interpretation, Catalogs, Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Exhibition Catalogs, Individual artists, Sculptors, biography, Political aspects, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions

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).