Alfredo Jaar
16 Feb - 07 Apr 2013
ALFREDO JAAR
The Sound of Silence
16 February – 7 April 2013
Alfredo Jaar addresses issues associated with how we view the world. The series of works presented here focus on what the artist calls “the politics of images”. The exhibition presents four works: The Sound of Silence, Searching for Africa in LIFE, From TIME to TIME and Untitled (Newsweek).
The installation The Sound of Silence (2006) consists of a large rectangular structure. The visitor encounters a wall with strong, dazzling light. On the opposite side is the entrance itself, where green and red lights indicate when visitors are allowed to enter. Inside the installation an eight-minute film is shown. The artist has described this work as a theatre built for a single image. Jaar sheds light on how images are created and what significance they can acquire, while also showing the potential complexity of how we see and relate to images. As the artist says, “Images are not innocent. You do not take a photograph. You make it”.
In the works Searching for Africa in Life (1996) and From Time to Time (2006) Jaar focuses on the often problematic representations of the African Continent in the Western media.
In Untitled (Newsweek) from 1994, Jaar shows what he calls “the barbaric indifference” of Newsweek magazine in the face of a genocide that killed a million people in one hundred days. The work forms part of The Rwanda Project 1994-2000, a long-term project dedicated to the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile in 1956. He lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010) as well as Documenta (1987, 2002) in Kassel, Germany. Important individual exhibitions include the Altes Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and NGBK, Berlin (2012), SMBA, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2011), South London Gallery (2008), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2007), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992) and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1992). He will represent Chile at the next Venice Biennale in June 2013.
The Sound of Silence
16 February – 7 April 2013
Alfredo Jaar addresses issues associated with how we view the world. The series of works presented here focus on what the artist calls “the politics of images”. The exhibition presents four works: The Sound of Silence, Searching for Africa in LIFE, From TIME to TIME and Untitled (Newsweek).
The installation The Sound of Silence (2006) consists of a large rectangular structure. The visitor encounters a wall with strong, dazzling light. On the opposite side is the entrance itself, where green and red lights indicate when visitors are allowed to enter. Inside the installation an eight-minute film is shown. The artist has described this work as a theatre built for a single image. Jaar sheds light on how images are created and what significance they can acquire, while also showing the potential complexity of how we see and relate to images. As the artist says, “Images are not innocent. You do not take a photograph. You make it”.
In the works Searching for Africa in Life (1996) and From Time to Time (2006) Jaar focuses on the often problematic representations of the African Continent in the Western media.
In Untitled (Newsweek) from 1994, Jaar shows what he calls “the barbaric indifference” of Newsweek magazine in the face of a genocide that killed a million people in one hundred days. The work forms part of The Rwanda Project 1994-2000, a long-term project dedicated to the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile in 1956. He lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010) as well as Documenta (1987, 2002) in Kassel, Germany. Important individual exhibitions include the Altes Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and NGBK, Berlin (2012), SMBA, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2011), South London Gallery (2008), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2007), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992) and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1992). He will represent Chile at the next Venice Biennale in June 2013.