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A richly illustrated survey of Alfredo Jaar’s Studies on Happiness (1979–1981) and its deep political stakes in the historical context of Chile’s neoliberal transition. Between 1979 and 1981, Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans a deceptively simple question: "Are you happy?" Through private interviews, sidewalk polls and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar’s three-year and seven-phase project, Studies on Happiness, addressed a furtive and fearful population living under Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. It also spoke to a country in transition, as a newly adopted constitution remade Chile through privatisation and other neoliberal reforms. In its varied intervent...
Alfredo Jaar is one of the most uncompromising artists working today. Through his photographic works and installations he studies cases of political oppression and social marginalisation.
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Widely regarded as one of the world?s most politically engaging and poetic artists, Alfredo Jaar addresses human trauma and the politics of image-making, creating visually and emotionally stunning works. 0Trained as a filmmaker and subsequently as an architect, Jaar often uses constructed spaces and light to navigate what is seen and what is not. At YSP, seminal installations transform the Underground Gallery and its open-air concourse. 00Exhibition: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wake?eld, UK (14.10.2017-08.04.2018).
This important retrospective of Alfredo Jaar's work brings together projects from 1986 - 1996.
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The Garden of Good and Evil' was commissioned to coincide with the major exhibition of the same name at YSP in 2017 by Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar. 0Widely regarded as one of the world?s most politically engaging yet poetic artists, Jaar addresses humanitarian trauma, inequalities and injustices around the world.0The original version of this work was displayed outside the Underground Gallery. Generously donated by the artist and a/political, this iteration of the work sees the cells permanently installed within this young woodland, opening up this area of the Park for the first time. Visitors are invited to walk amongst the trees to discover the hidden structures.0The steel cells refere...
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