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Doris Salcedo at the Tate Gallery

Carsten Holler - "Test Site"

“Test Site” by Carsten Holler

Doris Salcedo at the Tate Gallery The Tate Gallery has invited Colombian artist Doris Salcedo (born 1958) to create a new installation that will be placed in the large Turbine Hall – Unilever Series]]>

October 2009, source: Tate Gallery
“The Unilever Series” at the Tate Gallery continues. After the great success of Carsten Höller’s “Test Site”, a group of interactive spiralling slides, the Tate has invited Colombian artist Doris Salcedo (born 1958) to create a new installation that will be placed in the large Turbine Hall from 9 October 2007 to 24 March 2008.

As the Tate Gallery quotes in a press note, “Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia, where she continues to live and work. Widely recognised as one of the leading sculptors of her generation,over the past five years Salcedo has increasingly addressed the public sphere in her practice and has completed several large-scale projects around the world. This will be Salcedo’s first public commission in the UK”.

Responding to specific architectural, geographic and political situations -the press note continues- all of Salcedo’s projects are grounded in meticulous research, the exact nature of which is mostly hidden by the silent and hauntingly beautiful poetry of her work. Common themes include the destructive force of violence, personal and collective trauma, and the tragedy of human loss

Salcedo will join Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Whiteread and Carsten Höller as some of the artists invited to place their installations at the Turbine Hall.

You can read more about Carsten Holler’s “Test Site” in this link

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Doris Salcedo at the Tate Gallery