Art fair: Art Basel: Booth B5 & Unlimited

For Art Basel 2026, Galerie Lelong, New York and Paris, are pleased to present works by Etel Adnan, Pierre Alechinsky, Günther Förg, Ficre Ghebreyesus, Sarah Grilo,David Hockney, Alfredo Jaar, Hyunsun Jeon, Jannis Kounellis, Nalini Malani, David Nash, Yoko Ono, Jaume Plensa, Magnus Plessen, Arnulf Rainer,Alison Saar, Christine Safa, Pinaree Sanpitak, Sean Scully, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Barthélémy Toguo, Juan Uslé, and Fabienne Verdier.

For Unlimited—Art Basel’s sector for large-scale installations that transcend the classical art fair stand, curated by Ruba Katrib—Jean-Kenta Gauthier, Goodman Gallery, Galerie Lelong, Lia Rumma and Galerie Thomas Schulte present Alfredo Jaar’s The Power of Words (1984/2021).

Art Basel: Unlimited

For Unlimited—Art Basel’s sector for monumental installations, curated by Ruba Katrib—Jean-Kenta Gauthier, Goodman Gallery, Galerie Lelong, Lia Rumma and Galerie Thomas Schulte present Alfredo Jaar'sThe Power of Words (1984/2021).

This seminal, programmatic work reveals how, at the age of twenty-eight, the artist was already confronting the political stakes of images. The installation introduces themes central to his practice: the ethics of representation, the tension between words and images, and the viewer’s responsibility in the act of seeing. Created soon after Jaar’s arrival in New York in the early 1980s, the work centers on a photograph of a typewriter whose paper and roller have been removed. Through the empty opening, sixteen press photographs of anonymous figures in moments of crisis are projected. By removing the mechanism of writing, Jaar underscores the limits of language and confronts viewers with the ambiguity and ethical weight of images in a media-saturated world.