Video: Plegaria Muda - an installation dedicated to poverty
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Poverty is not a vice. Poverty is a disgusting phenomenon that has no place in the modern world, which produces an oversupply of goods and services. However, even in the richest countries of the planet there are whole layers of poor people, what can we say about the states of the third world? This social phenomenon is the subject of Doris Salcedo's installation called Plegaria Muda.
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo is already known to readers of the site Culturology. RF thanks to its unusual installation, which is a building made of 1,550 chairs. But one of his last works was created from tables. It is on display at the MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.
The installation Plegaria Muda is a set of wooden tables paired. In each of the elements of this work by Doris Salcedo, one inverted table lies on top of the other, with layers of fertile soil in between.
Seeds were planted in this soil in advance, which germinated a few months later and came out. Moreover, for this they had to do the almost impossible - to break through the wooden countertops.
Thus, Doris Salsedo's installation Plegaria Muda symbolizes the incredible difficulties that poor people have to face in order to win a better destiny, to break out of their social stratum.
However, the installation Plegaria Muda is dedicated, as its author says, not only to poverty, but in general to all marginal strata, which modern society (despite its declared tolerance and multiculturalism) denies the right to be heard and understood, who are forced to win this opportunity for themselves.
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