Salcedo began to exhibit her work at a very young age, when she was still in high school. In the early 1970s she moved to Barcelona where she studied printmaking, mural painting and photography. She later obtained a degree at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts.

Her practice is part of a multidisciplinary project, combining texts, videos, photography, costumes and painting, with the latter invariably used as the main support for her work.

Fascinated by the world of the image, Salcedo strives to bring together the static appearance of painting and the dynamism of cinema and photography. This painting responds to that twofold ambition: it is, on one hand, a veil that covers yet at the same time allows light to filter through and, on the other, a screen on which images are projected. The central bright square expands towards the sides, spreading out towards the darker edges. The immateriality of this piece speaks to radical abstraction.

Salcedo is obsessed with the idea of passage, above all the passing of time, of a time that can only be rendered by extending our contemplation of the painting. That is the reason why she dedicated this series to Zeitgeist, the spirit of the time.