Lot 64: Alfredo Jaar (born 1956)

"I Remember Her Eyes" - The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, 2001Dye-bleach print, signed, titled, dated, numbered 'AP' and inscribed 'For Mark with gratitude and admiration' in ink on the recto/ in the margin.3 1/8 x 8in (8 x 20.3cm)sheet 20 x 16in (50.8 x 40.6cm)

Alfredo Jaar, the Chilean artist, architect, and filmmaker, is known principally for his installations, often incorporating photography and on themes of conflict and politics. Perhaps his best known body of work is his Rwanda Project, a commentary on the genocide that took place there in 1994. Gutete Emerite, the subject of this work, was a survivor of the Ntamara Church massacre and her eyes, according to Jaar,"acted as a camera that saw something the rest of us could never see."