Jaar, Alfredo
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Bird, Jon
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Pollock, Griselda
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]Yorkshire Sculpture Park,
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Haupttitel vom hinteren Umschlag
Colophon: "Published by Yorkshire Sculpture Park to mark the permanent onstallation of Alfredo Jaar: The Garden of Good and Evil, September 2019."
Beschreibung:
The Garden of Good and Evil' was commissioned to coincide with the major exhibition of the same name at YSP in 2017 by Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar. 0Widely regarded as one of the world?s most politically engaging yet poetic artists, Jaar addresses humanitarian trauma, inequalities and injustices around the world.0The original version of this work was displayed outside the Underground Gallery. Generously donated by the artist and a/political, this iteration of the work sees the cells permanently installed within this young woodland, opening up this area of the Park for the first time. Visitors are invited to walk amongst the trees to discover the hidden structures.0The steel cells reference ?black sites?, the secret detention facilities around the world operated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The structures are partially obscured from view, in the same way the ?black sites? and the torturous activity happening is hidden from public view. Some of the known sites include Guantanamo Bay in Cuba; Salt Pit, also known as Cobalt and Code Black in Afghanistan; the hidden prison Bright Light in Romania, and others located in Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Thailand, Kenya and Egypt.0The cells all have a one-metre square base inspired by the poem One Square Metre of Prison by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was imprisoned many times and spent much of his life in exile. As with the installation, the poem reminds us of the privilege of freedom and the power of the human imagination.00Exhibition: Yorkshire Sculpture Garden, Wakefield, UK, from 21 September 2019