Monday, May 23, 2011

inspirations....Doris Salcedo


The new work, Plegaria Muda, asks us to reflect on the grey zones that always appear in the murky margins of our societies; zones in which the roles of perpetrator and victim tend to merge and where a human life more easily can be degraded ...into nothing. It stems from a three-year-long research of the ghettoes of South East Los Angeles, but it is also a direct answer to repeated atrocities committed by groupings within the Colombian army between the years 2003 and 2009.
more at http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=47584