"Drawing is very central to the way that I work because it can be blown up, taken apart.... You can just keep on pushing it, like this infinite machine...."
"Noviembre 6," detail (2001)
"Noviembre 6," detail, 2001
Stainless steel, lead, wood, resin and steel in 3 parts, dimensions variable
Collection of Daros-Latinamerica AG, Zürich
© Doris Salcedo
Courtesy the Alexander and Bonin, New York
Stainless steel, lead, wood, resin and steel in 3 parts, dimensions variable
Collection of Daros-Latinamerica AG, Zürich
© Doris Salcedo
Courtesy the Alexander and Bonin, New York
"I don’t think art has a possibility of providing aesthetic redemption. But I think we have to try. There’s a beautiful quote from the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. He says that when the victim gives account of his own ruin, life subsists even in the ruin. And I think that’s our task, to make that subsist, not to allow that to be forgotten—to bring that to our present tense."
-Doris Salcedo
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