Work Number 520, Keeping Watch with Doris Salcedo

This work is an intervention with the Doris Salcedo work Plegaria Muda. Salcedo's work was a response to the murder of 1,500 Colombian men who were innocent, lured with the false promise of a job in the army and then taken to remote areas of the country and killed. The piece is a silent memorial, installed on this occasion in a chapel. On the surface of each table, shoots of grass push their way through – a reminder of life even in death. I have added a chair to the work, set at a distance, a silent sentinel watching and listening to the grass grow.