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Gulf Distortions

Soledad Salamé and Goya-Girl Press, Inc.

Gulf Distortions

2010

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Gulf Distortions

2010

Physical Qualities Color screenprint on mylar, Sheet: 572 x 826 mm. (22 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Alice and Franklin Cooley Fund and partial gift of an Anonymous Donor
Object Number 2011.154.3
Baltimore-based artist Soledad Salamé visited the Venice and Grand Isle areas of Louisiana following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill to experience firsthand the effects of the largest-known crude oil extraction breach. She created these prints by faxing photographs of the region to herself and then screenprinting the digitally processed files. The resulting glitches in the image suggest a message from the past transmitted by decades of environmentalists warning those in power of such dangers. The shimmering within the prints comes from a high-tech ink called “interference pigment,” whose reflective quality mirrors viewers in the image of these calamities. Salamé warns us that the conditions of catastrophe are replicating quickly on a global scale, and time is running short to take action.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2011; Goya-Girl Press
Jessica Bell Brown and Leila Grothe, BMA, "How Do We Know the World?," November 15, 2021 - May 16, 2022.

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," Gallery 06, February 26 - June 2025.

Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "A/P 1/5"; lower center in graphite: "Gulf Distortions III"; lower left in graphite: "Soledad Salame 2011"

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Soledad Salamé

1953–2000

born Santiago, Chile 1954
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