How Going Blind Made Doris Salcedo’s Art Bigger and Better

Doris Salcedo is best known for her moving “anti-monuments,” gigantic artworks—or sometimes negative spaces—that propose new ways to commemorate atrocities. Always, she focuses on the victims’ perspectives. Her best-known work, Shibboleth (2007), installed in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, comprised one giant, scar-like crack in the concrete, rerouting foot traffic in a manner that evoked the jarring disruption of borders more broadly.The Colombian artist began working at such a monumen