Expressing her country's violent past through the use of domestic images
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has gained international prominence for work examining her country's turbulent and often violent political past. But there are no guns, no bullets, no blood and no corpses in her work. Instead Salcedo uses everyday objects to create her sculptures.
Take for instance the work that first shot her to international fame where she built a wall of cubby holes stuffed with shoes - shoes, that had often been the only way families had of identifying the bodies of their loved ones.
Currently Salcedo is in the UK working on a new, large-scale work entitled Neither. For the last two weeks the White Cube gallery in London's Hoxton has been the scene of furious activity as she and forty assistants have worked around the clock to finish the piece.
Martha went along to meet the artist and find out what it was all about.
Neither is at the White Cube gallery in Hoxton London until 18 October
