Alfredo Jaar’s work Two or three things I know about Monsters evokes a historical quote from Antonio Gramsci the old world is dying. The new one is slow to appear. And in this twilight zone monsters are born.
The art work accompanies us with the prophetic clarity of its warning, evoking the Antonio Gramsci’s words in all their inadvertent but dramatically true reality. We are all reminded of the need and purity of nurturing the highest and most noble of human essences: liberty, solidarity and compassion.

Alfredo Jaar (1956, Santiago de Chile) lives and works in New York. An artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who grew up under Pinochet’s military regime, Jaar fled Chile after completing a degree in architecture. For Jaar, art is unquestionably politically motivated, often tackling political and economic issues tied to humanitarian crises, political oppression, social marginalisation and human and civil rights violations. His interest is in drawing attention to situations which our consciousness tends to remove, and on the media’s manipulation of information.