Fifth edition of SCAD deFINE ART:
February 18–21, 2014
The SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, GA 31401
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has announced that renowned artist Alfredo Jaar will be the 2014 SCAD deFINE ART honoree and keynote speaker. The fifth edition of SCAD deFINE ART, the university’s annual fine arts showcase, will take place February 18–21, 2014. Previous deFINE ART honorees include Shirin Neshat, Fred Wilson, and Marina Abramović.
Making its world premiere at the SCAD Museum of Art for deFINE ART will be Alfredo Jaar’s Lament, a new, SCAD-commissioned installation. On view February 18 through June 29, 2014, Lament follows the footsteps of Jaar’s The Sound of Silence and is the second part of a trilogy of installations that revolve around the power of a single extraordinary image.
The Sound of Silence, a work exhibited 22 times in 14 countries and six languages, focuses on Kevin Carter’s Pulitzer-winning photograph taken during the Somalian famine. While this eight-minute, text-based, installation only reveals its subject image for a fraction of a second, Lament will, by contrast, unravel its photograph’s story through the exclusive use of images and the rejection of text. Lament‘s structure is inspired by Koen Wessing’s Chili September 1973, an entirely photo-based book about that fateful month in Chile, created by Wessing upon his return from ten days in Santiago, Chile. Echoing the photographer’s masterpiece, Jaar’s installation employs a similar strategy to tell the story of these women: photography used as text.
About Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. He was born in Santiago, Chile. More than 50 monographic publications have been published about his work. Jaar has exhibited extensively around the world. He has participated in the biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paolo (1985, 1987, 2010) as well as Documenta (1987, 2002) in Kassel. Jaar has served as a distinguished visiting professor at SCAD Atlanta and SCAD Savannah.
The SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, GA 31401
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