The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art by Claudette Lauzon

Author:Claudette Lauzon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442621596
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

An “Anarchival” Impulse

3.1 Doris Salcedo, Untitled, 2003. One thousand one hundred and fifty wooden chairs, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2003. Photo: Muammar Yanmaz. Courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York.

In the summer of 2003, Salcedo participated in the Eighth International Istanbul Biennial with an untitled installation of 1,150 chairs piled into an empty lot in a working-class residential-commercial neighbourhood of the city.5 This jumbled mass of modest wooden kitchen chairs, of varying shapes, sizes, and degrees of wear and tear, was jammed tightly between two neighbouring buildings, reaching three stories high and somehow achieving a flush vertical surface that belied its seemingly haphazard instability.6 The intention of the installation was to reproduce what Salcedo calls a “topography of war,”

so deeply inscribed in everyday life that, in spite of the fact that it represents an extreme experience, the point where normal conditions of life end and war begins can no longer be clearly discerned. An image where the private and the political collide, producing a complete sense of disorientation [reflecting] the complex and difficult relations that emerge in contested spaces or sites of war.7

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