Galerie Lelong, New York, is pleased to host a conversation between artist Alfredo Jaar and scholar Florencia San Martín in celebration of the release of San Martín's latest volume, Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished.
Join us in the gallery on Saturday, September 12 at 3pm for a live discussion between Jaar and San Martín followed by a book signing. Select quanities of the book will be available for purchase at the gallery.
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About the Book
In Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished, Florencia San Martín analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity that obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. San Martín argues that Jaar’s work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of the violent systems we inhabit. His art, she maintains, is informed by and responds to two interconnected historical events relevant to his own life: the US-backed military coup that established Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile and the implementation around the world of the corollary neoliberal economic system. San Martín explores the key themes in Jaar’s artistic practice—mourning, accountability, and failure—which situates the victims of the Chilean regime in a global context, directly confronts the architects of atrocity, and questions how ideas of diversity and inclusion have been co-opted by modern neoliberal discourses. Alfredo Jaar enables us to reimagine art history, offering a fresh paradigm with which to think about global contemporary art.
