Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In "Of What One Cannot Speak", Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a 'theoretical object' that invites - and demands - certain kinds of considerations about history, death, erasure, and grief. Bal ranges widely through Salcedo's work, from "Salcedo's Atrabiliarios" series - in which the artist uses worn shoes to retrace los desaparecidos ('the disappeared') from nations like Argentina, Chile, and Colombia - to Shibboleth, Salcedo's once-in-a-lifetime commission by the Tate Modern, for which she created a rupture, as if by earthquake, that stretched the length of the museum hall's concrete floor. In each instance, Salcedo's installations speak for themselves, utilizing household items, human bones, and common domestic architecture to explore the silent spaces between violence, trauma, and identity. Yet Bal draws out even deeper responses to the work, questioning the nature of political art altogether and introducing concepts of metaphor, time, and space in order to contend with Salcedo's powerful sculptures and installations. An unforgettable fusion of art and essay, "Of What One Cannot Speak" takes us to the very core of events we are capable of remembering - yet still uncomfortably cannot speak aloud.
0 有用 Manchild 2016-04-28 10:05:11
感觉艺术史(当代艺术领域)对理论的依赖程度远超英文系。
0 有用 _iaalaf_ 2019-11-25 15:55:01
*很有意思的theorist;更有意思的Salcedo;一如既往難讀的writing;contemporary玩概念和理論顯然比ancient East Asian自然多了
0 有用 backyard’ulu 2018-04-05 17:41:36
想说爱你不容易…
0 有用 _iaalaf_ 2019-11-25 15:55:01
*很有意思的theorist;更有意思的Salcedo;一如既往難讀的writing;contemporary玩概念和理論顯然比ancient East Asian自然多了
0 有用 backyard’ulu 2018-04-05 17:41:36
想说爱你不容易…
0 有用 Manchild 2016-04-28 10:05:11
感觉艺术史(当代艺术领域)对理论的依赖程度远超英文系。