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Doris Salcedo, Untitled

Salcedo developed these works for the XXXI National Salon for Colombian Artists, held in Medellín in 1987. The sculptures are made primarily from abandoned hospital furniture and reveal the artist’s ongoing interest in combining different objects and materials for their symbolic value.

Untitled (1986), partially constructed from a found bed frame, juxtaposes animal tissue, ten plastic dolls, and the severe angularity of the steel frame. Salcedo physically transformed the surfaces and colors of these objects, applying acids or allowing the pieces to weather and collect dust. These works developed out of the artist’s consideration of how Colombian drug cartels have recruited poor boys from Medellín as hired assassins, known in Spanish as sicarios.

Tracey Emin, Leave Her Mind Alone,  2010 

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Louise Bourgeois, The Reticent Child, 2003 Element of the installation that presents six different stages of the life of the artist’s son Alain. The work was created for an exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna.

Jenny Holzer, Truisms (Marquees), 1993, installation, NYC

Muriel Zeller, “Self, Time and External Circumstances”

Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Mother”

Mona Hatoum, Marrow , 1996, rubber, 128.3 x 58.4 x 50.8 cm. (50.5 x 23 x 20 in

Doris Salcedo, Untitled, 1987, Steel cot, steel shelving, rubber, 10 plastic dolls and pig intestine, 1870 x 2410 x 460 mm, 65, Tate

Tracey Emin, Terribly Wrong 1997, monoprint on paper, 58.2 x 81.1. Tate

Frida Kahlo, My Birth, Mi Nacimiento, 1932

Anne Sexton, “The Abortion”

Sylvia Plath, April 18th 

Tracey Emin, Feeling Pregnant (in 6 parts) , 2000, clothes, wood and text