Doris Salcedo at Alexander and Bonin Gallery

Bogota-based artist Doris Salcedo continues to carefully craft sculpture that speaks to violence and oppression with what ‘A Flor de Piel,’ a blanket of treated, waxed and sewn rose petals which she refers to as this shroud or skin.  (At Alexander and Bonin Gallery in Chelsea through July 26th).  

Doris Salcedo, A Flor de Piel, rose petals and thread, 2013.