




Alfredo Jaar – The Eyes of Gutete Emerita
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Alfredo Jaar (Chilean, b. 1956)
The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, 1996/2024
Medium: Two-part digital pigment print on hand-torn Hahnemühle rag paper
Dimensions: each 50 x 60 cm
Edition of 45 + 8 AP: Hand-signed on label verso of the second work, numbered
Condition: Mint
Artwork details
The Eyes of Gutete Emerita by Alfredo Jaar is a signed two-part digital pigment print on Hahnemühle rag paper, first conceived in 1996 and realised in this edition in 2024. The photographic work belongs to The Rwanda Project (1994–2000), Jaar's six-year response to the Rwandan genocide and to the Western world's failure to bear witness to it.
Having photographed the aftermath himself, Jaar found he could not exhibit the images directly: "I had to create a new strategy to attempt representing the horror." The result was a body of artworks that withholds, delays, and reframes rather than documents — confronting the viewer with the ethics of looking rather than the spectacle of suffering. These limited edition photographs, hand-torn and presented in two parts, carry that tension in their very form: the image is both offered and interrupted, never fully surrendered.
About this artist
Alfredo Jaar (born 1956, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean artist, architect, and filmmaker based in New York, whose practice ranks among the most politically and philosophically urgent in contemporary art. Working across installation, photography, film, and public intervention, Jaar has spent four decades interrogating the ethics of representation — asking how images circulate, what they conceal, and what responsibility falls on those who make and consume them.
His most celebrated body of work, The Rwanda Project (1994–2000), was developed in direct response to the genocide and the global media's failure to adequately represent it. Rather than offering documentary photographs, Jaar withheld them — confronting viewers instead with the limits of photography and the mechanisms by which suffering is rendered invisible. The project, comprising over twenty individual artworks, remains one of the most morally serious artistic responses to atrocity in the history of contemporary art.
Jaar's practice extends far beyond a single subject. His installations, prints, and public interventions have addressed conditions in gold mines in Brazil, the US-Mexico border, the oil industry in Nigeria, and the displacement of populations across the globe — always with a rigorous formal intelligence that refuses both sentiment and spectacle. Text, light, mirrors, and carefully controlled image sequences are among his recurring tools, deployed with an architect's precision and a philosopher's patience.
Alfredo Jaar's artworks have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and the São Paulo Bienal, and are held in the permanent collections of MoMA New York, the Guggenheim, and the Centre Pompidou, among major institutions worldwide. His editions and photographs are collected internationally, and he has received the Hasselblad Award, the Hiroshima Art Prize, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, among numerous other distinctions.

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