Alfredo Jaar & Jean-Kenta Gauthier in conversation on 15 March 2023 as part of the group exhibition Losing Is Also Still Ours [Perdre Aussi Nous Appartient], presented from 12 February to 22 April 2023 at Jean-Kenta Gauthier Odéon & Vaugirard.

This exhibition was an attempt to align with the subtlety of poet Rainer Maria Rilke?s (1875-1926) words: "Losing is also still ours" (letter to Hans Carossa, 7 February 1924). Something is always lost, and this very loss is precious. Each of the works in the exhibition is, as Alfredo Jaar likes to formulate, an "exercise in representation". Representations of the world, of intimacy, of suffering, of violence, of pleasure, of silence and noise. In doing so, none of the works in this exhibition dictate what is to be seen. The challenge of Losing Is Also Still Ours is to present clearly how all representation retains an irreducible and precious opacity. In this exhibition, we were pleased to present two works by Alfredo Jaar: Real Pictures (1995) and Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima (2019).

Conversation available on our YouTube channel.