Alfredo Jaar wins the 2020 Hasselblad Award

Alfredo Jaar- Geometria da Consciência, 2010 (Alfredo Jaar)

Chilean Alfredo Jaar was the winner of the 40th edition of the Hasselblad Prize . An artist, architect and filmmaker, Jaar lives in New York. His work is recognized for his installations that discuss complex issues with sociopolitical themes. One of his most famous public interventions was the creation of a museum in Sweden made of paper that had the ephemeral duration of a single day.

Alfredo Jaar - Cultura = Capital, 2012 (Divulgação)

In addition to the Brazilian, who is also curator of the photography department at the Instituto Moreira Salles, the jury was formed by Joshua Chuang, senior curator at the New York Public Library, Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, professor at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Laura Serani, curator independent in Italy and France and Yiannis Toumazis, NiMAC director and professor at Frederick University, Cyprus.

The award is considered one of the most prestigious in the field and has celebrated, in its previous editions, names such as Henri-Cartier Bresson, Susan Meiselas (1994), Nan Goldin (2007) and Daido Moriyama (2019). According to Jaar, “I feel extremely I am honored and proud to receive this incredible recognition. I would like to express my surprise and deep gratitude to the Hasselblad Foundation and to those who have received this award in the past. I have dedicated my practice entirely to the politics of images, and this generous recognition gives me the strength to continue my work. journey in these dark times.”

Alfredo Jaar - The Skoghall Konsthall, 2000, Suécia (Divulgação)

In Brazil, a major retrospective exhibition is scheduled to be held in September by Sesc Pompéia, in partnership with Estação Pinacoteca. A new book about the artist will be published by Buchhandlung Walther König, including a new essay by Jacques Rancière, also if publication date here.

The Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation was established in 1979 and aims to promote and foster research and academic teaching in photography. Since 1999, the foundation has opened to the public a library dedicated exclusively to photography — currently the only photography book library in the world. Sweden.