Pérez Art Museum Miami Museum Circle Preview of Doris Salcedo

Miami, FL – April 20, 2016 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Museum Circle members joined for a special preview of the museum’s latest special exhibition, Doris Salcedo. Guests enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as they celebrated the artist and the most significant exhibition of her work to date. The work of Salcedo is deeply rooted in her country’s social and political landscape, including its long history of civil conflicts. Her sculptures and installations address these fraught circumstances with elegance and a poetic sensibility that balances the gravitas of her subjects with subtle formality. Rather than making literal representations of violence or trauma, Salcedo’s artworks convey a sense of an absent, missing body and evoke a collective sense of loss. The resulting pieces engage with multiple dualities at once—strength and fragility, the ephemeral and the enduring—and bear elements of healing and reparation in the careful, laborious process of their making. Salcedo grounds her art in rigorous fieldwork, which involves extensive interviews with people who have experienced loss and trauma in their everyday lives. This process imbues her work with an intimate connection to the personal that speaks to collective experiences and universal emotions. In more recent years, Salcedo has created large-scale, site-specific installations around the world, including in Turkey, Italy, England, and her native Colombia.

Doris Salcedo & Jorge Pérez

Darlene & Jorge Pérez

Tobias Ostrander, Darlene & Jorge Pérez

Dede & Bob Moss, & Gloria Kahn

Nathalie Alfonso, Anthony Spinello, Agustina Woodgate, & Guillermo Gomez

Sofia Imber & Doris Salcedo

Israel Guevara, Ninoska Huerta, & Sofia Imber

Scott Hodes, Maria Bechily, & Franklin Sirmans

Maria Bechily, Doris Salcedo, & Scott Hodes

Tobias Ostrander, Doris Salcedo, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, & Franklin Sirmans

Karin Borjas, Dora Valdes-Fauli, Aida Baladi-Lequerica, & Annette Turrillo

Doris Salcedo

Bobbie King & Ashley Augustus

Carole Hall & Mireille Chancy-Gonzalez

Vivi & Joe Gehr

Rayma Suprani, Katherine Gruber, Annette Turrillo, & Karin Borja

Monica Trujillo, Gonzalo Jaramillo, Gloria Kahn, Bill & Patty Kleh, & Michael Kahn

Franklin Sirmans & Thais Aristimuno

Jessica Katz, Andrew Massad, & Ana Maria Celis

Peter B. Brandt, Susan May, Carolyn Alexander, Michael Darling, & Ashlee Jacob

Anabela Mendoza, Rolando Peña, & Linda Blasini

Alexa Ferra, Leann Standish, & Angela Oxenberg

Jessica Sirmans, Maria Bechily, Leann Standish, & Johnny Chavez

Jaco & Tila Bibliowicz

Daniel Wiesner, Isabel Feldsberg, Carlos Granada, Rebeca Herrera-Feldsberg, & Roberto Uribe