Doris Salcedo

Untitled 1987

Untitled 1987 is a series of sculptures by Doris Salcedo made from scrap steel frames from hospitals, animal fibres and ten plastic dolls, giving a deep sense of confinement.

Doris’s practices often express violence and displacement caused by poverty, war, colonialism and discrimination by found objects and This work is no exception, as it was made for Medellia at the time. At the time Medellin was a drug-trafficking centre in pabloescobar, where economic hardship and the threat of violence led many young people to work as drug traffickers.

Salcedo uses hospital furniture as a focal point for meditations on the tragic cycle of raw rice and death, with various bed frames, cots and gynaecological footstools cut and reassembled to produce disturbing standing structures at once, and each deliberately discoloured and covered in dust.

These objects evoke protection, care and confinement. broken and dysfunctional beds are tied together with animal fibres (pig’s large intestines) in what seems to be a restoration doomed to failure from the start.

What struck me most was the artist’s control of the materials. The extreme use of contrast, the hard metal frame and the soft animal fibres, the cold hospital instruments and the warm plastic toys of children. They are forcibly tied together in a way that makes me feel the impact of this exhibit. The dusty and dusty exterior makes this ‘bondage’ a ‘fact’.

Untitled

贩毒/贫困/恶性循环

墓碑/纪念