Soledad Salamé
Katrina

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Artist Soledad SalaméChilean, born 1954

CultureChilean

Titles

Katrina
from the series Newspaper, Almost Transparent

Date2019

MediumEngraved and sandblasted folded glass with articulated shadow projection print, edition 1/2

Dimensions12 3/16 × 17 1/16 × 1 1/8 in. (31 × 43.3 × 2.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Fanny Sanin

Object number2023.200.A-.C

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Gallery 314

On view

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Department

Latin American Art

Object Type

GLASS

ProvenanceThe artist; (Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland); purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistorySoledad Salamé, We the Migrants: Flooding Fleeing. Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, September 15 – October 26, 2019.

Soledad Salamé: Forced by Nature. TransArt Foundation for Art and Anthropology, Houston, September 17, 2021 – March 27, 2022.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Front: Newspaper headline engraved, upper center and bottom center: The New York Times [partially legible] / Late Edition / NEW ORLEANS IS INUNDATED [...]IL; / MUCH OF GULF COAST IS CRIPP[...]ISES / water engulfed much of New Orleans yesterday, and officials feared a steep death toll after br[ea]ches / in the levees sent the waters of Lake Pontchart[r]ain pouring into the city.
Back: Signature and date engraved, bottom left corner: Soledad Salamé [cursive] / 2019

Back: Signature and date engraved, bottom left corner: Soledad Salamé [cursive] / 2019

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