Lod Hdiyu Dhuow
Source 1
Source 1
Animal skin
Animal skin
Boxes like living caskets
Boxes like living caskets
Harsh stitching
Harsh stitching
"Atrabiliarios," 1992-93
Shoes, animal fiber, and surgical thread, dimensions variable
Collection of The Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
Photo by Robert Pettus
© Doris Salcedo
"Atrabiliarios," 1992-93
Shoes, animal fiber, and surgical thread, dimensions variable
Collection of The Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
Photo by Robert Pettus
© Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo (Frames and Artist Practice)
Structural Frame: (techniques, signs and symbols, how do they bring meaning?, visual conventions, methods of display, recurring images/objects.)
Doris Salcedo implies violence and fragility through her use of materials rather than overt literal statements. In doing this she creates a chain of reactions leading to a change for the better of mankind.
Her early sculptures and installations combine domestic furniture with textiles and clothing. She uses these to create domestic connotations, signifying the absent human body. Salcedo derived her materials from research into Colombia’s recent political history, so these belongings are directly linked to personal and political tragedy. For example, in her artwork ‘Atriabiliarios’ 1995-97 (refer to source 1)’, a display of shoes, pairs and singles are encased and hanging on a wall behind sheets of a thin layer of animal skin, crudely stitched to the case. These shoes once belonged to women who were ‘disappeared’ and were donated by the victims of families. Each one implies a nameless person, the wearer.
Below on the floor are small made from the same animal membrane suggesting them to be like living caskets. She expresses feelings of loss and absence using various visual metaphors. This symbolises death and murder. Cruel acts represented by the harsh stitching can suggest these actions are simply “sewn” up and hidden away, never to be spoken of. The
Source 1
Animal skin
Animal skin
Boxes like living caskets
Boxes like living caskets
Harsh stitching
Harsh stitching
"Atrabiliarios," 1992-93
Shoes, animal fiber, and surgical thread, dimensions variable
Collection of The Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
Photo by Robert Pettus
© Doris Salcedo
"Atrabiliarios," 1992-93
Shoes, animal fiber, and surgical thread, dimensions variable
Collection of The Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
Photo by Robert Pettus
© Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo (Frames and Artist Practice)
Structural Frame: (techniques, signs and symbols, how do they bring meaning?, visual conventions, methods of display, recurring images/objects.)
Doris Salcedo implies violence and fragility through her use of materials rather than overt literal statements. In doing this she creates a chain of reactions leading to a change for the better of mankind.
Her early sculptures and installations combine domestic furniture with textiles and clothing. She uses these to create domestic connotations, signifying the absent human body. Salcedo derived her materials from research into Colombia’s recent political history, so these belongings are directly linked to personal and political tragedy. For example, in her artwork ‘Atriabiliarios’ 1995-97 (refer to source 1)’, a display of shoes, pairs and singles are encased and hanging on a wall behind sheets of a thin layer of animal skin, crudely stitched to the case. These shoes once belonged to women who were ‘disappeared’ and were donated by the victims of families. Each one implies a nameless person, the wearer.
Below on the floor are small made from the same animal membrane suggesting them to be like living caskets. She expresses feelings of loss and absence using various visual metaphors. This symbolises death and murder. Cruel acts represented by the harsh stitching can suggest these actions are simply “sewn” up and hidden away, never to be spoken of. The