Alfredo Jaar “Lament of the Images”
We visited Alfredo Jaar’s solo exhibition “Lament of the Images.” The venue is SCAI THE BATHHOUSE.
Alfredo Jaar (born 1956, Santiago, Chile) is an artist who works across a range of media including sculpture, architecture, and film, employing the rigorous vocabulary of Minimalism to represent cultural and political crises. Through meticulous research into human rights violations and social injustice around the world, he reexamines information distorted by the media, casting light on the truth of these situations through humanitarian insight. In this exhibition, Jaar’s uncompromising approach takes shape as a critique of contemporary media culture.
The flood of digital photography on social media and the control of information in the news media. As fake news proliferates, discerning truth from lies and fact from fiction becomes increasingly difficult, and the crisis of the image in society comes into sharp relief. This exhibition, which addresses blindness in contemporary visual culture, is composed of light and text. Not a single photograph is on display.
At times like these, it would be nice to have a poster tube ready.
The eponymous work “Lament of the Images” gradually reveals its meaning as two aluminum tables are combined together.
The flood of photographs and videos is likened to a blinding flash of light, seemingly expressing the blindness of contemporary society.
