Doris Salcedo

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This major retrospective will survey the searing, deeply poetic work ofDoris Salcedo (b. 1958, Bogotá, Colombia). Over the past three decades, Salcedo's practice has addressed the traumatic history of modern-day Colombia, as well as wider legacies of suffering stemming from colonialism, racism, and other forms of social injustice. Originating in lengthy research processes during which the artist solicits testimonies from the victims of violent oppression, her sculptures and installations eschew the direct representation of atrocities in favor of open-ended confluences of forms that are fashioned from evocative materials and intensely laborious techniques. Many of her works transmute intimate domestic objects into subtly charged vessels freighted with memories and narratives, paradoxically conjuring that which is tragically absent. The Guggenheim’s presentation of Doris Salcedo will occupy four levels of the museum’s Tower galleries. It will feature the artist’s most significant series from the late 1980s to the present, as well as a video documenting her remarkable site-specific public projects and architectural interventions.

Doris Salcedo is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

This exhibition is supported in part by the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation.

The Leadership Committee for Doris Salcedo is gratefully acknowledged for its support, with special thanks to Chair Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, as well as to Peter Brandt, Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation, Jill and Peter Kraus, Becky and Jimmy Mayer, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, Jerome and Ellen Stern, and the Walentas Family Foundation.

Additional funding is provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Colombia.