Doris Salcedo

Columbian artist Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo 'uses everyday domestic and personal items, such as furniture and clothing, and organic substances, such as bone, hair and animal fibre. These materials are brought together to make evocative works that address loss, grief, pain, memory, absence and mourning. This seems to really touch on the idea of visualizing human identity.
The shoes used in her work are those of lost persons in Columbia, they are behind the wall and covering them is a stretched skin like material giving the feel of translucency and of loss.
She fuses together wood furniture with cement, hair, and different fibres to create something that forms its own identity and in doing so calling attention to human loss, pain, absence, and grief. The furniture used is abandoned. Salcedo's use of materials is crucial to her work and how it relates to human identity.
I really love her work, she calls attention to the horrible things going on in the world. Her Columbian background has really made her do some profound art.