Colombian artist Doris Salcedo is one of today´s most internationally respected South American sculptors, whose work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Gallery, London. Inspired as much by poetry and philosophy as by the affecting material qualities of sculpture, Salcedo subtly and painstakingly transforms everyday household objects and garments -symbols of vanished existence and of the human tragedies that are its cause. In Salcedo´s ongoing untitled works, wooden furnishings, worn by long use and infilled with concrete, mutely evoke the lives they once served. American art critic Nancy Princenthal surveys Salcedo´s work in terms of universal themes it evokes.
