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Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been awarded the inaugural $1 million Nomura Art Award, earning her the biggest cash prize in contemporary art. The award, founded by Japanese financial services group Nomura and presented in October, is given to “an artist who has created a body of work of major"u2026
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Embodying memory in a way that draws the viewer into an emotional exchange with a distant other, Doris Salcedo’s work exemplifies the theme of this chapter. The work is open to quite personal readings and in a very important way ...
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In Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s monumental installation titled "Uprooted" at the Sharjah Biennial 15, home is rooted in the mind.
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After receiving her visual artist diploma from Bogota’s Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in 1980, and then Master’s degree in Art from New York University in 1984, Doris Salcedo returned to Columbia to teach sculpture and art theory. Her own work, rewarded in 1993 by a...
Suture: A joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching.The unexpectedly sensuous definition of the clinical term “stitching” evokes...
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Doris Salcedo 'Atrabiliarios', 1992-97, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
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Artist: Doris Salcedo Title: Untitled Ephemeral public project at: 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2003 Photo Credits: Sergio Clavijo “This installation, produced for the 8th I…
The intellectual curator and author discusses the work of the highly political Columbian sculptor in this essay, originally printed in Defining Contemporary Art.
by Giovanni Aloi Under the Skin Silence—this is the overpowering impression that haunts viewers walking through the galleries of Columbian-born artist Doris Salcedo’s work, which just recently closed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Salcedo’s sculptures reverberate like the calm after the storm—they stand like ruins—memories of events and people that have tragically[...]
Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films, resources, and public programs.
Doris Salcedo is interested in replicating the indefinite, affective qualities of mourning — its weight, intangibility, absurdity, and reliance on personal associations.
Doris Salcedo knows well art’s inability to effect social change. Her sculptures and installations, as powerful as they are, will not change the...
