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‘More than inert, silent pieces, I see them as acts – useless actions, as though one could amend reality.’

– Doris Salcedo

Surveying some of Doris Salcedo’s best known works, Acts (an anthology) assembles new essays from six esteemed voices to reflect on the artist’s singular ability to broach subjects of great political gravity, by confronting the most urgent concerns of our time.

Text by Brian Dillon, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Hal Foster, Andreas Huyssen, Griselda Pollock, Susan Schuppli
Edited by Honey Luard and Elaine M.L. Tam
Designed by (Studio) Jonathan Hares
Printed by Robstolk, Amsterdam
240 x 165 mm, softback
190 pages, colour illustrations throughout
ISBN 978-1-910844-87-8
Published by White Cube, November 2026

Brian Dillon is an Irish writer based in London. His books include Ambivalence (2026), Affinities (2023), Suppose a Sentence (2020), Essayism (2017) and In the Dark Room (2005).

Denise Ferreira da Silva currently holds the Samuel Rudin Chair Professor in Humanities in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and co-directs the Critical Racial Anti-Colonial Study Co-Laboratory, both at New York University. Her publications include Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013), and Unpayable Debt (2022). In 2023, she held the International Chair in Contemporary Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Université de Paris 8.

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art History at Princeton University. He is the author, most recently, of Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics (2025), What Comes After Farce? Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle (2020) and Brutal Aesthetics (2020), his 2018 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery in Washington. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foster co-edits October and writes regularly for The London Review of Books.

Andreas Huyssen is Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Recent publications include Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South (2022) and Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (2015). Huyssen is also co-editor of the special issue of New German Critique on memory culture after Gaza (2026).

Griselda Pollock is Professor Emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds. As a social-feminist art historian and cultural theorist, her work foregrounds the complexities of gender, class, race, memory, trauma and representation. Her publications include Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory (2018) and Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting (2022). She has curated several exhibitions including Art in the Time-Space of Memory and Migration, Freud Museum, London (2007) and Medium & Memory, HackelBury Fine Art, London (2023–24). In 2020, she was Laureate of the prestigious Holberg Prize and in 2023 she was given the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art by the College Art Association of the United States.

Susan Schuppli is a researcher, Forensic Architecture Fellow, and Professor and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her investigations span legal analysis, public advocacy, theoretical reflection and creative exploration to understand how environmental transformations are generating new forms of evidence. She is Principal Investigator on the Forensic Architecture investigation ‘Designing Resistance: Tools for Indigenous Struggle Against Green Colonialism’ in Namibia and Canada. Schuppli is author of Material Witness (2020) and Cold Cases (forthcoming).