The artist’s work is an ongoing exploration of how to address and articulate violence and loss. The objects she makes are works of intimate remembrance. Travelling through Colombia with humanitarian groups, Salcedo gains inspiration from the testimonies of people who are struggling to rebuild their lives after suffering the loss of a family member. She acts as a witness, meditating on the loss of freedom and human life in a country enduring a culture of collective fear—the result of years of civil war, drug-related crime, state-sanctioned torture and executions.
The materials she works with: simple furniture like wardrobes, tables and chairs, clothing, thread and animal skin, speak of the sanctity and familiarity of everyday domestic life. Through her molding or reshaping of these pieces - embedding a chair within a doorframe, grafting two tables into an unstable hybrid - she creates a traumatized, dysfunctional, object.
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