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ALFREDO JAAR Name: Class: Date: Alfredo Jaar Introduction Born in 1956 in Chile, Alfredo Jaar is an architect, artist and filmmaker living in New York City. Since his early years, while living in Martinique before he moved to Chile, he showed prospects and potentials of being an artist in the future even though people, including his parents, did not know or understand what field of artistry he would venture in. In essence, the field of artistry and architect Alfredo Jaar has ventured in is quite unique and different from the usual works that artists do and it is for this reason that his works have been the center of debate and controversy over the years of his career. He is widely recognized as an installation and fixation artist who regularly covers social and political wars as well as incorporating photographs in his works. The most famous and controversial artistry work of Jaar is conceivably the 6-year-running The Rwanda Project that covered the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed approximately one million in Rwanda. Aside from The Rwanda Project, Alfredo Jaar has had numerous publications and public intervention political works that have featured the most known and brutal wars in the world and the events that have been subject to the world attention. Through these photographs, installations and community-based projects, Jaar has, for a long time, explored the public’s unawareness to images and the restrictions of art to cover events such as epidemics, genocide and famines. Describing himself as a project artist rather than a studio artist, Jaar’s works also bear witness to political corruption, military conflicts and the imbalances of power in the
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