Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been the eighth artist selected to produce a work for the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, joining the distinguished ranks of Carsten Höller, Anish Kapoor, and Olafur Eliasson, among others, in receiving the museum's honor and challenge. Trained as a painter, Salcedo later made sculptures comprised of furniture mixed with unorthodox elements, such as human hair and concrete. Exploring themes of violence and social injustice, she has increasingly created large-scale work, as in her 2003 piece for the Istanbul Biennial, for which she piled 1,550 chairs into an abandoned building plot as a striking spatial metaphor for migrant workers and their foundational place in the global economy. Neither the Tate, which currently owns three of the artist's works, nor Salcedo has said what her Turbine project will consist of, although every indication points to it being political in nature and monumental in scale.