Doris Salcedo's Melancholy Objects

In: Portal: journal of multidisciplinary international studies, Band 5, Heft 1

Abstract

This article takes Doris Salcedo's work 'Atrabiliarios' (held in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) as the starting point for a discussion of the mechanisms of melancholy and fetishism. This is linked to a discussion of the politics of looking, museum displays and memory.