Doris Salcedo
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA Chicago)
Doris Salcedo’s well-known “Untitled” series, 1989–2008, features pieces of domestic furniturechairs, armoires, cabinets, and tablesthat have been fused together with concrete and steel into haunting amalgams. That clothing is sometimes visible within the sections of concrete, its softness frozen and locked within the rigid horizontals and verticals of the intersecting objects, only reinforces the sense of the uncanny that pervades these works. Salcedo’s sculpture insists on decelerated, meticulous viewing: One must circumambulate the objects within the exhibition space to pinpoint