Ukryte obrazy Alfredo Jaara. Konfiguracja widzialnego
The Concealed Images of Alfredo Jaar. The Configuration of the Visible

Summary/Abstract: The installations of the Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar make it possible to discuss tragedyas aproblem. Jaar examines the effects of traumatic events and analyses documentary material, media messages and landsca- pes of crime. Two works considered in this essay: Re- al Pictures and Untitled (Newsweek) refer directly to the civil war in Rwanda. Immediately after the hosti- lities came to an end, the artist spent several months in the ravaged country where he took photographs of the survivors, collected reports and amassed material, conceived as afuture archive of the events. Ultimate- ly, the archive never came into being – material tra- ces proved to be too controversial and the very possi- bility of taking astand towards recent history became questioned. The discussed works by Jaar demonstrate the significant part played within this concept by the media, which simultaneously produce an illusion of atide of information and ignore those events that do not fit into the frame of the constructed spectacle.

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