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“Deep as humanity: Doris Salcedo and the ethics of remembrance”
Idalina Conde (Conde, I.);
Título Evento
CMCI Conference Cultural Resilience – Resilient Cultures: the Art of Resistance in Changing Worlds, King's College, London, 13-14 junho 2017
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2017
Língua
Inglês
País
Reino Unido
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Abstract/Resumo
In 2007 the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, in London, hosted Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo (b.1958), the eighth major artist invited for the Unilever Series. Her impressive intervention was a crack with 167-metre-long in the hall's floor, in her words to represent “borders, the experience of immigrants, the experience of segregation, the experience of racial hatred. It is the experience of a Third World person coming into the heart of Europe". A deep blow, “deep as humanity”, like other works on pain, trauma, loss and remembrance of this Colombian artist reknown for her commitment to give voice to the “world of victims”, of violence, inequalities and exclusions. She is a case for the paper that I propose on the ethics of remembrance with an art of resistance. «Plegaria Muda» (literally, silent prayer), a parallel work since 2008 to 2010 also exhibited in Lisbon at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2011-12, was a mourning installation to remember the dead, the “disappeared” in a most obscure and bloody history of Colombia. Like a cemetery, it displayed 162 tables with the size of coffins. As the artist said, if a table is a place of meeting, sharing and exchange, such disturbing form signed the “unbearable emptiness” of human bodies. Though we saw in Lisbon some grass growing from the inner coffintables as another sign of life. “Over time something comes. And this is the only way we can address violence: the certainty that life prevails”. It is however a statement without complacency that urges life and remembrance to fight violence. Remembrance is a duty, a right and a weapon against the own violence of forgetting while in less extreme situations it might be a way of healing and reconciliation to rebuilt bonds of community.
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