SITE DORIS SALCEDO
Speak slowly so you can understand
I would like
to focus more on the positions.
Every one of my pieces
decided to become
our selves in an effective position
rendered intelligible because
I talk
searching for bases.
Self is within
all
life
capable of awakening solidarity.
Ephemeral communities.
Disappeared people. I tried to assemble all
of them in a single space.
SITE DORIS SALCEDO
See the work as an encounter.
Historical.
materials, concrete, and wood.
Have absolutely nothing left
defense (the victim cannot use language)
focus on specific cases of violence.
Person’s partial negation >
indifference.
Time’s correlation not between past & present.
So I
make a piece. I try to find individuals /
all I can find is absence.
Traces
sacred.
Sacred
therefore.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 2-23-05 (9:39 PM)
Written during a talk by this internationally-visible artist based in
Bogota, Colombia. I had been haunted by the one piece by Doris Salcedo in
the Hirshhorn Museum's collection, but aside from thinking about the
connection between her work and that of Juan Munoz and Guillermo Kuitca, I
really wasn't prepared for her powerful and articulate presentation in very
lucid English. Those qualities, plus her overt indebtedness to poetry and
philosophy, gave me the confidence to attempt a diastic in medias res after
initially feeling I'd be lucky to complete an acrostic sixteener.
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