Join Chilean artist, architect, and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar for the New York premiere of Between the Heavens and Me, a work filmed while in confinement during the early stages of COVID-19. In this short film, Jaar brings us into what he describes as “an exercise in healing,” reckoning with music as a curing agent, as well as questions on death and mourning during troubled times. Slow, painful images of mass graveyards in Hart Island—located off the northeastern coast of the Bronx—are joined with sorrowful tunes and poetry in an attempt to process the events taking place in New York during the first year of the pandemic. An internationally acclaimed artist, Jaar has gathered recognition since the mid-1990s for his politically-minded works contending issues of geopolitics, state violence, human tragedies, and social injustices.
Following the screening, Jaar will discuss Between the Heavens and Me and other projects with curator and art historian Luis Pérez-Oramas, including his most recent work, Red Pavilion, which opened in September in Milan, and The Power of an Idea, a recent digital publication co-authored with Pérez-Oramas and produced through the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.