Florencia San Martín is Assistant Professor of Art History at Lehigh University.Wolfgang Kaleck is the founder as well as general secretary for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.

“It is rare that an artist whose work is deeply committed to sociopolitical issues receives detailed attention to that element rather than glancing references to alert the viewer. Alfredo Jaar is not only a globally important visual artist but a savvy and brilliant commentator/participant in the content at the heart of his work. In this book—as potentially groundbreaking as Jaar’s art—Florencia San Martín offers a dense, detailed, and intelligent analysis of the art and its crucial political contexts, opening up Jaar’s visual oeuvre to its real significance in and beyond the world of art.”—Lucy R. Lippard, writer, art critic, activist, and curator“Florencia San Martín provides a compelling argument for Alfredo Jaar as a powerful guide through the practices of decolonial art made within today’s repressive neoliberal regimes. Grounded in over a decade of interviews with one of the leading voices in contemporary art, this study envelopes the reader in Jaar’s urgent questions about social justice and state violence, migration and exile, happiness and loss.”—Esther Gabara, author of Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism

• List of Illustrations ixForeword: Vivimos Adentro, Pero en Contra / Wolfgang Kaleck xiiiIntroduction. Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished 1Representing Decolonial Time 4The Ongoing Neoliberal Present 12Hemispheric and Global Entanglements 20Exercises of Memory 351. Mourning 46Stanzas of Remembrance 49Urgent Solidarities 62Images of Existence 67Grief Uprising 752. Accountability 88An Imperial Handshake 91Politics of Images 102Representation and Liability 115Time and Crime 1283. Failure 136Reenactments 137Combat Zones 146Liberation 156Revolution 163Conclusion. The End of the World 172Acknowledgments 197Notes 203Bibliography 231Index 251

Florencia San Martín is Assistant Professor of Art History at Lehigh University.Wolfgang Kaleck is the founder as well as general secretary for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.

“It is rare that an artist whose work is deeply committed to sociopolitical issues receives detailed attention to that element rather than glancing references to alert the viewer. Alfredo Jaar is not only a globally important visual artist but a savvy and brilliant commentator/participant in the content at the heart of his work. In this book—as potentially groundbreaking as Jaar’s art—Florencia San Martín offers a dense, detailed, and intelligent analysis of the art and its crucial political contexts, opening up Jaar’s visual oeuvre to its real significance in and beyond the world of art.”—Lucy R. Lippard, writer, art critic, activist, and curator“Florencia San Martín provides a compelling argument for Alfredo Jaar as a powerful guide through the practices of decolonial art made within today’s repressive neoliberal regimes. Grounded in over a decade of interviews with one of the leading voices in contemporary art, this study envelopes the reader in Jaar’s urgent questions about social justice and state violence, migration and exile, happiness and loss.”—Esther Gabara, author of Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism

• List of Illustrations ixForeword: Vivimos Adentro, Pero en Contra / Wolfgang Kaleck xiiiIntroduction. Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished 1Representing Decolonial Time 4The Ongoing Neoliberal Present 12Hemispheric and Global Entanglements 20Exercises of Memory 351. Mourning 46Stanzas of Remembrance 49Urgent Solidarities 62Images of Existence 67Grief Uprising 752. Accountability 88An Imperial Handshake 91Politics of Images 102Representation and Liability 115Time and Crime 1283. Failure 136Reenactments 137Combat Zones 146Liberation 156Revolution 163Conclusion. The End of the World 172Acknowledgments 197Notes 203Bibliography 231Index 251

Florencia San Martín is Assistant Professor of Art History at Lehigh University.Wolfgang Kaleck is the founder as well as general secretary for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.

“It is rare that an artist whose work is deeply committed to sociopolitical issues receives detailed attention to that element rather than glancing references to alert the viewer. Alfredo Jaar is not only a globally important visual artist but a savvy and brilliant commentator/participant in the content at the heart of his work. In this book—as potentially groundbreaking as Jaar’s art—Florencia San Martín offers a dense, detailed, and intelligent analysis of the art and its crucial political contexts, opening up Jaar’s visual oeuvre to its real significance in and beyond the world of art.”—Lucy R. Lippard, writer, art critic, activist, and curator“Florencia San Martín provides a compelling argument for Alfredo Jaar as a powerful guide through the practices of decolonial art made within today’s repressive neoliberal regimes. Grounded in over a decade of interviews with one of the leading voices in contemporary art, this study envelopes the reader in Jaar’s urgent questions about social justice and state violence, migration and exile, happiness and loss.”—Esther Gabara, author of Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism

• List of Illustrations ixForeword: Vivimos Adentro, Pero en Contra / Wolfgang Kaleck xiiiIntroduction. Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished 1Representing Decolonial Time 4The Ongoing Neoliberal Present 12Hemispheric and Global Entanglements 20Exercises of Memory 351. Mourning 46Stanzas of Remembrance 49Urgent Solidarities 62Images of Existence 67Grief Uprising 752. Accountability 88An Imperial Handshake 91Politics of Images 102Representation and Liability 115Time and Crime 1283. Failure 136Reenactments 137Combat Zones 146Liberation 156Revolution 163Conclusion. The End of the World 172Acknowledgments 197Notes 203Bibliography 231Index 251