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Doris Salcedo (born in 1958, in Colombia) uses everyday objects to create powerful images of the violence of the modern world, in particular linked to the armed conflict in her country. 

In Untitled, steel rods pierce white shirts, folded and piled up on top of each other. This work is a direct allusion to two massacres carried out in 1988, on banana plantations in the north of Colombia. Fixed beneath a covering of plaster, these shirts - denoting the traditional wear of plantation workers - form a monument to the anonymous victims listed in the news.