Alfredo Jaar creates installations and photographic works around human rights, media representation and geopolitical violence. His projects often begin from journalistic images but critically examine how suffering is framed, circulated or ignored.
Photography; installation; public intervention
Objects
Artist Films
Alfredo Jaar in "Protest" - Season 4 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
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Major Works
- 1994–2000The Rwanda Project
- 1996The Eyes of Gutete Emerita
- 2006The Sound of Silence
- 1987A Logo for America
- 1999Lights in the City
- 2000The Skoghall Konsthall
- 1986Gold in the Morning
- 2000The Cloud
- 2014Shadows
- 1979–81Studies on Happiness
Interviews & Writing
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