Alfredo Jaar: An Interview
1990 | 00:41:00 | United States | English | Color | Stereo
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Tags: Installation, Interview, Latino/Chicano, Photography, Politics
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Alfredo Jaar is a politically motivated artist whose work includes installation, photography and film. Born in Chile and now living in the U.S., Jaar’s socio-critical installations explore global political issues, frequently focusing on the Third World and the relationship between consumption and power. A 1988 installation in a subway station in New York involved dramatic photographs of impoverished gold miners n Brazil interspersed with quotations of current gold prices, drawing an unexpected parallel between the material desires that motivate people in both poverty-stricken Brazil and affluent Manhattan.
Interview by Joyce Fernandes.
A historical interview originally recorded in 1990 and re-edited in 2005.
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