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Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished
In Alfredo Jaar, the first critical academic survey devoted to the prominent Chilean-born artist, Florencia San Martn shows how his work takes up mourning, accountability, and failure, offering a new model for how to think about global contemporary art today.

In Alfredo Jaar, Florencia San Martn analyzes the work of the prominent Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, whose work challenges the linear and triumphalist temporality of Western modernity that obscures the violence of colonization and globalization. San Martn argues that Jaars work represents decolonial time, exposing the limits of the violent systems we inhabit. His art, she maintains, is informed by and responds to two interconnected historical events relevant to his own life: the US-backed military coup that established Pinochets dictatorship in Chile and the implementation around the world of the co