Between the Heavens and Me is an exercise in healing, a meditation on the immense curing power of music, a philosophical essay on death and a futile response to a moment of infinite sadness.
—Alfredo Jaar
2020, video, sound, 13:15
Courtesy of the artist
Biography
Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010, 2020) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).
Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Whitechapel, London, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome.
Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin, Rencontres d’Arles, KIASMA, Helsinki, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.
The artist has realized more than seventy public interventions around the world and over sixty monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020.