introduce one artist exhibited installation art and tell me more about her/his works
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Doris Salcedo is a Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor.[1] Her work is influenced by her experiences of life in Colombia. Salcedo's work gives form to pain, trauma, and loss, while creating space for individual and collective mourning. These themes stem from her own personal history and much of her work deals with the fact that, while the death of a loved one can be mourned, their disappearance leaves an unbearable emptiness.
She believes that her art represents a social conscience and sees her own role as that of a witness. Salcedo commonly constructs her pieces with everyday objects, including domestic furniture, hair, and clothing. Sculpture, for Salcedo, “is the giving of a material gift to the being who makes his presence felt in my work.” Salcedo also makes installations that alter existing spaces. She has been known to work with architects and engineers to make works that are set directly and almost imperceptibly into their surroundings.