“The level of precision that you see on each work, it’s caring about that life.” – Doris Salcedo, 2023

Doris Salcedo collects witness statements and testimonies from individuals who have fallen victim to the ongoing conflict in her native Colombia, or deal with issues of migration, displacement and flight on an international level.

While these personal narratives are not immediately decipherable in the final artworks, they inform the ways in which she approaches each project, centering her process on the memories of others.

This summer, Fondation Beyeler is presenting eight of Doris Salcedo’s major series of works, showing the Colombian artist’s poetic, caring and yet still powerful approach on themes that couldn’t be more topical.

Get to see the exhibition “Doris Salcedo” until 17 September at the Fondation Beyeler and discover the impressive works of one of the most important artists of our time.

Credits: Doris Salcedo, Untitled, 1989–2014, Cotton shirts, steel, and plaster, overall dimensions variable, Installation view, Doris Salcedo Studio, Bogotá, 2013, Collection of the artist
Doris Salcedo, Atrabiliarios, 1992-2004 (detail), Shoes, drywall, paint, wood, animal fiber, and surgical thread , Dimensions variable, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase: gift of Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, Patricia and Raoul Kennedy, Elaine McKeon, Lisa and John Miller, Chara Schreyer and Gordon Freund, and Robin Wright
Doris Salcedo, Plegaria Muda, 2008–2010 (detail), Wood, earth, concrete, metal, and grass, 166 parts, dimensions variable, Installation view, CAM–Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2011, Collection of the artist
Doris Salcedo, Untitled, 2001, Wooden armoire, wooden cabinet with glass, concrete, steel, and clothing, 203.5 x 170 x 127 cm, The Rachofsky Collection
Doris Salcedo, Disremembered X, 2020-2021, Sewing needles and silk thread, Dimensions variable, Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland
Doris Salcedo, A Flor de Piel II, 2013-14 (Detail), Rose petals and surgical thread, Dimensions variable, Presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift to Tate
Doris Salcedo, Palimpsest, 2013–2017, Installation view, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2023, Hydraulic equipment, ground marble, resin, corundum, sand and water; dimensions variable, © the artist
Doris Salcedo, Untitled, 1992, Wood, concrete, steel, glass, and fabric, 114.3 × 186.7 × 50.8 cm, Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2015, The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Society for Contemporary Art, 1994.542
Unland: audible in the mouth, 1998, Wooden tables, silk, human hair, and thread, 80 x 75 x 315 cm, Tate, presented by the Patrons of New Art through the Tate Gallery Foundation 1999
Unland: irreversible witness, 1995-1998, Wooden tables, steel crib, silk, human hair, and thread, 111.76 cm × 248.92 cm × 88.9 cm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, purchase through the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Fund and the Accessions Committee Fund

Video: k/g Studio