Alfredo Jaar : Hasselblad Award 2020

The Foundation’s citation regarding the Hasselblad Award Laureate 2020, Alfredo Jaar
"Alfredo Jaar explores complex socio-political issues, bringing to the fore the ethics of representation. Through quiet and meditative works, Jaar confronts issues of great magnitude, bearing witness to humanitarian disasters and attesting to the impact of military conflict, political corruption and economic inequality throughout the world. His photographs, films, elaborate installations and community-based projects provocatively disturb common perceptions of reality. At the heart of his practice is what Jaar refers to as the politics of images, questioning the way we use and consume images, while pointing to the limita-tions of photography and the media to represent significant events." source: www.e-flux.com