FROM WHITE CUBE: Doris Salcedo makes sculptures and installations that function as political and mental archaeology, using domestic materials charged with significance and suffused with meanings accumulated over years of use in everyday life. Saucedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means.
Text from the Tate Museum: Shibboleth reflects Salcedo’s belief that modern art museums themselves enact this form of exclusion as histories of twentieth-century modernism have until recently largely failed to address the contributions made by non-European cultures. The artist stated in 2007 that the crack in Tate Modern’s iconic space reveals a ‘colonial and imperial history [that] has been disregarded, marginalized or simply obliterated … the history of racism, running parallel to the history of modernity’ (quoted in Martin Herbert, The Unilever Series: Doris Salcedo Shibboleth, exhibition brochure, pg.2.)
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