Limiares estético-políticos de um Schibboleth latino na Tate Modern

Abstract

There are many Schibboleths of our modernity, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, religious traits that should guarantee singularities of peoples and regions are transformed into traces of identification of the undesirable other. Schibboleths that could serve as a denunciation of an urgent need for hospitality become obstacles to its practice. Doris Salcedo, a Colombian artist invited by the Tate Modern in London in 2007, creates her Schibboleth to denounce historical processes of erasing this other, especially the colonized, subalternized, exploited, expelled, exterminated other. The artist creates an installation that dives into the bowels of the institution, appropriating it through an indelible mark of denunciation of the historical violence produced by borders and across them. A work of traces of pasts, but also of possible futures, a rift that separates and unites at the same time, it will be through this clash of civilizations united by the fissure that we will initiate, in the company of Jacques Derrida and his philosophy of traces, a critical interlocution with the work and its becomings.