Uprooted(2020–2022)
Doris Salcedo
Uprooted, 2020–2022
804 dead trees and steel ; 3000 x 650 x 500 cm.
Installation view: Sharjah Biennial 15, Kalba Ice Factory, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
Talk Description
Doris Salcedo reflects on her artistic practice and conceptual methodology, focusing on her latest work commissioned for SB15. The Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor discusses her prolific artistic practice spanning more than three decades. Her work is deeply rooted in the traumatic history of modern-day Columbia, as well as other injustices and traumas stemming from colonialism, racism, forced migration and state violence globally. Often composed of found objects or everyday domestic items, her sculptures embody a sense of trauma and loss.
Speaker
Doris Salcedo – Artist
Interviewer
Octavio Zaya – Independent curator and art writer
Registration
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Salcedo, Doris
Known for her sociopolitical sculptural work, Doris Salcedo’s multidisciplinary practice centres around themes of memory, loss and violence as experienced by the exiled and traumatised. Often incorporating everyday items such as clothing and furniture, her works recreate the ineffable emptiness that a loved one’s disappearance creates.
Zaya, Octavio
An independent curator and art writer, Octavio Zaya is currently creating a Decolonial Archive for museum TEA (Tenerife Space for the Arts), Canary Islands.