"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Gold in the Morning" (1987)
"Gold in the Morning," 1987
Lightboxes with color transparencies, metal boxes, gilded frames, nails. Overall dimensions: variable. Installation view: Venice Biennale. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
© Alfredo Jaar, courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York.
Lightboxes with color transparencies, metal boxes, gilded frames, nails. Overall dimensions: variable. Installation view: Venice Biennale. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
© Alfredo Jaar, courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York.
"I’ve never been capable of creating a single work of art that just comes from my imagination. I don’t know how to do that. Every work is a response to a real-life event, a real-life situation."
- Alfredo Jaar
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