Alfredo Jaar

I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a…

— Alfredo Jaar

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the…

— Alfredo Jaar

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

— Alfredo Jaar

I remember her eyes. The eyes of Gutete Emerita.

— Alfredo Jaar

I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's…

— Alfredo Jaar

How many languages do we really speak?

— Alfredo Jaar

Nowadays I see my work being used, without my permission, as if it was an attack against the Trump regime. People want…

— Alfredo Jaar

I think I'm a journalist in one sense - I want to communicate to people about certain things that are happening around…

— Alfredo Jaar

We are the result of the stimulus we receive.

— Alfredo Jaar

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In…

— Alfredo Jaar

As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in…

— Alfredo Jaar

Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out…

— Alfredo Jaar

Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But…

— Alfredo Jaar

My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is…

— Alfredo Jaar

Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.

— Alfredo Jaar

I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of…

— Alfredo Jaar

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

— Alfredo Jaar