Alfredo Jaar’s has consistently focused the eyes of the public on the mass media images that flood the world, including an exhibition of his work that signaled a warning about the situation in Rwanda and the international community’s attitude of indifference. He presents the actual events that exist on the other side of the limited information contained in a single image and questions the kind of role that images have in society. In The Sound of Silence considered to be Jaar’s representative work, the viewer is sharply confronted with questions about the journalistic ethics surrounding a certain renowned photograph that received a Pulitzer Prize and about the capital surrounding that.
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
2006
Installation view: Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne
Photo Credit: Alfredo Jaar
