Alfredo Jaar: The Garden of Good an Evil

Alfredo Jaar: The Garden of Good and Evil at YSP.

This powerful work by Alfredo Jaar, who is regarded as one of the world’s most politically engaging artists, draws attention to a difficult and challenging subject. A number of steel cells, just large enough to house a standing or crouched body, represent ‘black sites’, the secret detention facilities operated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and used to interrogate suspects. Known sites include Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, as well as locations in Romania, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Thailand, Kenya and Egypt.