Alfredo Jaar

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Follows Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar as he finds his artistic voice and develops the socially critical perspective of his work.

In this installation Alfredo Jaar meditates on the events of June 1, 2020, six days after police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old Black man. One of the many peaceful protests following Floyd’s death took place in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square, near the White House. In order to facilitate a photo op for former President Donald Trump raising a Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church adjacent to Lafayette Square, U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordered federal forces to clear the area. They subsequently fired on the peaceful protestors with tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets. They also flew two helicopters so low to the ground that the wind created by their rotors broke tree branches and scattered debris.

BETWEEN THE HEAVENS AND ME is a diary filmed in confinement in the early months of Covid-19 in New York.

1987 animation created by Alfredo Jaar for an electronic billboard in New York City’s Times Square, which was originally commissioned by the Public Art Fund as a part of the Messages to the Public program.

Created in 2009 by Alfredo Jaar, The Ashes of Pasolini is a short film commemorating the life of the famous Italian filmmaker, writer and thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances.

No synopsis available yet.

In this installation Alfredo Jaar meditates on the events of June 1, 2020, six days after police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old Black man. One of the many peaceful protests following Floyd’s death took place in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square, near the White House. In order to facilitate a photo op for former President Donald Trump raising a Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church adjacent to Lafayette Square, U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordered federal forces to clear the area. They subsequently fired on the peaceful protestors with tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets. They also flew two helicopters so low to the ground that the wind created by their rotors broke tree branches and scattered debris.

BETWEEN THE HEAVENS AND ME is a diary filmed in confinement in the early months of Covid-19 in New York.

1987 animation created by Alfredo Jaar for an electronic billboard in New York City’s Times Square, which was originally commissioned by the Public Art Fund as a part of the Messages to the Public program.

Created in 2009 by Alfredo Jaar, The Ashes of Pasolini is a short film commemorating the life of the famous Italian filmmaker, writer and thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances.