Alfredo JaarWelcome to the USA (TIME), 2018
Letraset on printed matter, frame
34 x 48.4 x 3.8 cm
Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956, Chile) is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who considers social injustices and human suffering through thought-provoking installations. His practice has developed as a means of intervention - isolating specific adverts, articles or magazine covers and displaying them anew within a museum or gallery context. At times, the artist alters the image to change the intended message, as seen in works such as Welcome to the USA (TIME) (2018). This work was included in Jaar’s London gallery show this year - IF IT CONCERNS US, IT CONCERNS YOU - which offered a potent survey of works by the artist, chronicling the artist's forty-year critique of the Western media.
