Doris Salcedo - 2011 Guggenheim International Gala Contemporary Art Benefit Auction for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York Monday, November 7, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Courtesy ofthe artist and Alexander and Bonin, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    The divisions between creed, color, class and culture that maintain our social order, precariously balanced as it is on the precipice of a chaotic void of hatred. — Doris Salcedo

    (Lyall, Sarah. “Caution: Art Afoot,” The New York Times. 11 December 2007.)

  • Artist Biography

    Doris Salcedo

    Colombian • 1958

    Colombian-born sculptor Doris Salcedo studied at New York University before returning to her hometown of Bogotá to teach in 1980. Her work revolves around themes of suffering and loss, inspired by both personal and collective experience of trauma in Colombia. Composed of commonplace items such as wooden furniture, clothing and grass, her sculptures give form to the emptiness left in the wake of the death or disappearance of a loved one. By acknowledging and making manifest the void, her works probe its potential to be reappropriated as a space of mourning. She has become predominantly famous for her installation artwork, in which she incorporates the physicality of space, creating historically and politically charged environments.

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Shibboleth I-IV

2007
archival pigment inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
i) Sheet: 29 5/8 x 22 1/4 in. (75.2 x 56.5 cm); Image: 25 3/16 x 18 5/16 in. (64 x 46.5 cm)
ii) Sheet: 29 5/8 x 23 1/4 in. (75.2 x 59 cm); Image: 25 3/16 x 19 1/4 in. (64 x 48.8 cm)
iii) Sheet: 29 5/8 x 22 1/2 in. (75.2 x 57 cm); Image: 25 3/16 x 18 1/2 in. (64 x 47 cm)
iv) Sheet: 29 5/8 x 23 in. (75.2 x 58.4 cm); Image: 25 3/16 x 19 in. (64 x 48.2 cm)

This work is from an edition of 45.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $17,000

2011 Guggenheim International Gala Contemporary Art Benefit Auction for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

7 November 2011
New York