in online exhibition FACES – a new group portfolio
The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, 1996/2024
From FACES
Two-part digital pigment print on Hahnemühle 300g rag paper, hand-torn, each 50 x 60 cm. Edition of 45 + 8 AP, signed on label verso of the second work, numbered on the print itself.
EUR 3,000
The Rwanda Project, a six-year project that served as a tribute to the victims lost in the Rwandan genocide and a critique of the Western world's indifference to one of the most violent conflicts of recent history, is one of Alfredo Jaar's best known works. On this project and the powerful image that his two-part edition The Eyes of Gutete Emerita is based on, the artist says: "I visited Rwanda to witness the genocide of a million people in less than 100 days, in the face of the barbaric indifference of the so-called 'world community'. I took thousands of pictures, some of the most harrowing scenes I had ever experienced. But I discovered later that I could not exhibit them. I had to create a new strategy to attempt representing the horror. This work for Faces is one such exercise."
