Erika Diettes
Sudario #9

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Artist Erika DiettesColombian, born 1978

CultureColombian

Titles

Sudario #9
from the series Sudarios

Date2011

MediumInkjet print on silk

DimensionsOverall: 79 3/8 × 53 5/8 in. (201.6 × 136.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation and Jorge Blanco in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement

Object number2015.209

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by Latin American Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionOffering sobering meditations on the horrors of war, each of Diettes’s Sudarios (Shrouds) portrays a Colombian woman who had been present at the torture and murder of a loved one. The closely cropped, larger-than-life black-and-white portraits were made while the women, most of whom have their eyes closed, were speaking at a moment of great vulnerability.
ProvenanceThe artist, Bogota, Colombia; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed ink on back of top hem 2/3

SIgned in ink on back of top hem: EDIETTES

printed certificate of authenticity with artist's signature is in accession file

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