Alfredo Jaar Exhibition to Open This Autumn at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Galerie Lelong & Co. has announced a solo exhibition of work by Alfredo Jaar at Yorkshire Sculpture Park that includes a new commission, The Garden of Good and Evil (2017), on view October 14, 2017 - April 8, 2018.

After entering a grove of trees, visitors experience an installation of fabricated steel cells, which reference "black sites," secret detention facilities operated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) around the world. Many of the trees will remain in the park as an enduring legacy of the project even after the exhibition closes.

Additional works by Jaar will transform YSP's Underground Gallery. The first space features The Sound of Silence (2006), a sculpture-and-film installation that confronts the history behind South African photojournalist Kevin Carter's devastating image of a vulture and a young child during the 1993 Sudanese famine. The image drew global attention and debate over difficult questions about the human response to the suffering of others, the responsibilities of witness, and the ownership of images that serve as witness in the media. Similarly interrogating the power and politics of iconic images include works such as Shadows (2014) and A Hundred Times Nguyen (1994).

The Garden of Good and Evil is Jaar's third institutional solo exhibition this year, with another museum exhibition Shadows opening at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands in 2018. Jaar is also currently featured in Age of Terror, Imperial War Museum, London; Sanctuary, FOR-SITE, San Francisco; and Memories of Underdevelopment, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

For more information, visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park website.

Pictured: Alfredo Jaar, The Sound of Silence, 2006.