Doris Salcedo’s latest work: a memorial for drowned migrants

Doris Salcedo is the latest artist to highlight the refugee crisis, with a new work honouring migrants due to go on show in Madrid later this year. The vast public art piece by the Colombian artist, part of the ongoing Palimpsest series (6 October-1 April), will go on display in the Palacio de Cristal in the Parque del Retiro, a venue run by the Reina Sofia Museum.
 
The work is dedicated to all of those who have drowned in the Mediterranean and Atlantic in the past 20 years, emigrating in