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Doris Salcedo's 2003 Istanbul InstallationArtist Doris Salcedo makes thought-provoking art from reclaimed items of furniture, transforming the objects into politically charged sculptural work. In 2003 she took over a derelict spot between two buildings in Istanbul, stacking 1,500 chairs on top of one another that towered over passers-by like a small building. The chairs were piled in disarray but level with the building facades each side, a way of memorialising faceless victims of society whose disappearance or work goes by unnoticed.1
Doris Salcedo's 2003 Istanbul InstallationBuilt for the 8th Annual Istanbul Biennale, the Colombian artist worked along a similar concept in her piece 'Noviembre 6 y 7' in 2002. Here she had lowered wooden chairs slowly over the facade of Bogota's Palace of Justice in commemoration of the 1985 political massacre.2
