Discover Doris Salcedo’s ‘Atrabiliarios’ (1993), as part of White Cube Salon.
With this early work from one of the artist’s most widely exhibited series, Doris Salcedo offers a haunting testimonial to loss and the unresolved afterlives of the disappeared.
In ‘Atrabiliarios’ (1993), she arranges well-worn shoes within six wall recesses, each space veiled by a taut skin of cow bladder stitched to the wall along its edges with surgical thread.
Conceived in 1991, this body of work exemplifies the artist’s practice of political archaeology: exhuming the remnants of violence to shape charged sites of remembrance and mourning.
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