Live Auction 2895Latin American Art
Doris Salcedo (Colombian b. 1958)
Lot 69

Doris Salcedo (Colombian b. 1958)

Atrabiliarios

Closed25 November 2014

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Doris Salcedo (Colombian b. 1958)
Atrabiliarios
four niches: wood, sheetrock, shoes, animal fiber and surgical thread
36 x 68½ x 4¼ in. (91.4 x 174 x 10.8 cm.)
Executed in 1993.

Anon. sale, New York, Christie's, 19 November 2001, lot 57 (illustrated in color).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

I believe that the major possibilities of art are not in showing the spectacle of violence but instead in hiding it . . . . It is the proximity, the latency of violence that interests me.
--Doris Salcedo1


1 See D. Salcedo, interview with Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo, “Art and Media-tion” in Cultural Producers in Perilous States: Editing Events, Documenting Change, ed. G. E. Marcus (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997, 238.