Muxima alfredo jaar biography

Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker

Alfredo Jaar (;^[2]Spanish:[ˈɟʝaɾ]; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City.

He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war—the best known perhaps being the 6-year-long The Rwanda Project about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He has also made numerous public intervention works, like The Skoghall Konsthall one-day paper museum in Sweden, an early electronic billboard intervention A Logo For America, and The Cloud, a performance project on both sides of the Mexico-USA border.

He has been featured on Art:21.^[3] He won the Hasselblad Award for 2020.

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Alfredo Jaar's Muxima () brings together diverse ideas and significant cultural traditions as envisioned by one of the most important contemporary.

A cinematic elegy dedicated to the people of Angola.

Muxima, which means “heart” in Kimbundu (an indigenous language of Angola), is a cinematic elegy dedicated to the people of Angola.

That's what Alfredo Jaar does in his beautiful minute film, Muxima (pronounced moo-sheem-AH), set in Angola and named for a local folk song.

He is the father of musician and composer Nicolas Jaar.

Early life

Jaar was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile. From age 5 to 16, he lived in Martinique before moving back to Chile.^[4]