Doris Salcedo lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia, one of the world's most violent cities. She uses her work to comment on the chaos that surrounds her, often employing personal items such as furniture and clothing to represent victims who have disappeared or been silenced. "I use a shoe," she explained, "because whenever there is a death or people buried in a mass grave, there is always a shoe left lying around. A shoe tells you about what kind of person wore it, and it bears the marks, the story, of the person who no longer wears it."

Ilona Katzew, 2008