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 monumental scale only after she began losing her central vision. At age 31, Salcedo was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a rare genetic condition, and today she is legally blind, with only peripheral sight.

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