Artist field note

Alfredo Jaar

The ethics of looking must be designed, not assumed.

Appears inPower
The Rwanda Project by Alfredo Jaar — Example from the series
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The Rwanda Project

1994-2000

A sequence of works confronts both genocide and the failures of its photographic representation.

The five in one idea

Jaar slows the consumption of suffering and makes spectators answer for how images are seen.