Artist field note

Doris Salcedo

Absence is given weight, scale and duration.

Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo
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Shibboleth

2007

A crack through Tate Modern's floor makes exclusion and colonial division physically unavoidable.

The five in one idea

Salcedo makes sculpture bear witness without pretending that representation can repair political loss.