Doris Salcedo has always been interested in the things that remain: the domestic objects left behind, the traces of absent bodies. Born in Bogotá in 1958, the Colombian artist has spent much of her career confronting the human consequences of political violence, and making “visible the experiences of the most vulnerable and most anonymous victims.” Her latest works, House and Grains of Sorrow, now installed at White Cube, use individual strands of human hair—knotted, woven, and assembled by hand over the course of years. It is an unsettling material, as hair is both intimate and anonymous, suggesting an individual life but no easy identification. Salcedo uses hair to address the devastation of displacement and the basic needs of shelter and sustenance. Grains of Sorrow is made up of small vessels made from rice and hair. Arranged on the gallery floor, they are modest in scale but not in implication, for they oppose the man-made starvation that is still used as a weapon of war. The meticulous, handmade process also draws attention to the often-overlooked labor of workers across the Global South, who drive the global economy. “A collective statement is far more powerful than a lonely solo voice,” Salcedo tells White Cube. “It becomes like a chorus, and a really potent one.” —Clara Scholl