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NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 6. Satellite Exhibition: Alfredo Jaar ALFREDO JAAR: LET THERE BE LIGHT Solo exhibition, ING Cultural Centre, Brussels 10.10. – 10.12.2012 Part of the international contemporary art exhibition NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights, Mechelen Alfredo Jaar occupies a special position in NEWTOPIA. Apart from the presentation of his work in Mechelen, the artist will also have a solo exhibition in Brussels, at ING Cultural Centre. This exhibition is a satellite project of Newtopia, which ING is premium sponsor of. During his thirty-year career, Jaar has been consistently engaged with key human rights issues, creating photography, film, installation and text-based works that respond to global conflicts and key social and political events. The artist has consistently examined the relationship of the developed world to the global South and critically dissected the ways these events are transmitted, represented and discussed in the international media. Jaar’s practice revolves around international current affairs with a special focus on human rights violations, social disenfranchisement and economic inequalities. His subject matter spans a wide variety of issues and subjects from the genocide in Rwanda, American complicity in the military dictatorships in Chile, gold mining in Brazil, pollution in Nigeria, border issues between Mexico and the United States and neo-liberal economic practices. Underlying Jaar’s work is a critical analysis of the politics of the image, a de-construction of standardized media representations of victimhood and violence and a questioning of the passive consumption of such imagery. In an age when images of atrocities have become commonplace and interchangeable, Jaar’s work raises critical questions such as: does an oversaturation of media images of war and violence lead to indifference? How would it be possible to reflect on images of suffering in a way that could challenge the apathy of contemporary mass media consumption? Jaar’s work thus addresses the complicated question of human empathy and ‘affect’, engagement, individual responsibility and how these might be reinstated as values in our time. Jaar’s exhibition at ING Cultural Centre will focus on the work the artist has made concerning the African continent. It will include work relating to Angola, Sudan, South Africa and will also feature several key works from the artist’s seminal Rwanda Project (1994-2000), a long-term attempt to tackle the senseless violence that resulted in the deaths of over a million 68 International Media Relations: Goldmann Public Relations Daniela Goldmann Anna Bernhardt Zimmerstraße 11 10969 Berlin Deutschland T: +49 (0) 30 259 357 0 F: +49 (0) 30 259 357 29 servicebln@goldmannpr.de Press contact Belgium / The Netherlands Gerrie Soetart Populierstraat 9 Rue du Peuplier 1000 Brussels T: +32 (0) 475 47 98 69 F: +32 (0) 2 219 30 27 gerrie.soetaert@skynet.be
NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 Tutsis in 1994 (the third largest genocide of the twentieth century). At the heart of this project is the problem of representation: of photography’s contested relationship to violence, suffering and pain. How can one possibly convey mass murder in pictorial terms? How is it possible to convey suffering without falling into the usual clichés of spectacularization or victimhood? How can one engender empathy when the world is so saturated with images of violence and suffering? What is the photographer’s responsibility in such cases? These are some of the questions that Jaar’s work raises. In a masterful style characterised by subtlety and respect for his subjects, Jaar’s work addresses the complex question of how it is possible to engender empathy and affect in a world saturated with images of violence and suffering. The exhibition is curated by Katerina Gregos. For more information on Alfredo Jaar’s exhibition Let there be Light, please contact ING Belgium Press Office: E: pressoffice@ing.be T: +32 2 547 22 94 www.ing.be/art PRACTICAL INFORMATION Address: ING Cultural Centre, Place Royale 6, 1000 Brussels Dates: 10.10.2012 – 10.12.2012 Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am until 6 pm; Wednesday from 10 am until 9 pm; open every day, even on official holidays Tickets: 10 ! / 8 ! ING cardholders and groups Visitors guide: for free for all visitors at Place Royale NEWTOPIA Pass: for free for all visitors at Place Royale NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights is taking place at the Mechelen Cultural Centre, The Old Meat Market, Museum Hof Van Busleyden, Lamot Congress and Heritage Centre, The Academy of Fine Arts, Scheppers Institute and public spaces in the city of Mechelen from September 1 st to December 10 th , 2012. www.NEWTOPIA.be 69
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