The Sound of Silence, 2006
“a theater built for a single image” (Jacques Rancière)
The work tells the story of Kevin Carter (1960 – 1994), a South African photojournalist who became famous for his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken while reporting in Sudan in 1993 of a famine-stricken child crawling along the ground as a vulture looks on. After its author committed suicide, the photograph became the property of his daughter Patricia Megan Carter and its rights are handled by Corbis, the world’s biggest photographic agency, which controls over a hundred million images and is owned by Bill Gates. Using a great economy of means, Jaar questions not only the limits of the representable and the very possibility of being an eye-witness, but also tackles issues of responsibility of both the individual photographer, those who control the circulation and dissemination of images, and ultimately, the spectator.
![Alfredo Jaar Out of balance, 1989/2021 caixa de luz [light box] 51 x 244 x 18 cm 20 1/8 x 96 1/8 x 7 1/8 in](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/galerialuisastrina/images/view/d24ce5e661a9c5c9c1db957c90cd1993j/luisastrina-alfredo-jaar-out-of-balance-1989-2021.jpg)
![Alfredo Jaar Outros pensam [Other People Think], 2021 caixa de luz, cubo de posters caixa de luz [light box]: 154 x 154 x 14 cm | 60 5/8 x 60 5/8 x 5 1/2 in cubo de poster [cube of posters]: 154 x 154 x 154 cm | 60 5/8 x 60 5/8 x 60 5/8 in Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/galerialuisastrina/images/view/3b9478b7a228d1ee5b96e6c66c6c18f6j/luisastrina-alfredo-jaar-outros-pensam-other-people-think-2021.jpg)
![Alfredo Jaar Você não tira uma fotografia. Você faz uma [You do not take a photograph. You make it], 2021 cubo de posters 150 x 150 cm Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/galerialuisastrina/images/view/e5494d40959dcbdce433502e217aca39j/luisastrina-alfredo-jaar-voc-n-o-tira-uma-fotografia.-voc-faz-uma-you-do-not-take-a-photograph.-you-make-it-2021.jpg)
