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Six illuminated black panels show white map lines and red dotted routes arranged along a gallery wall.

Installations

Geography = War

Alfredo Jaar

1990

Medium
Twelve transparencies in six lightboxes with six mirrors
Dimensions
Overall: 48 1/2 × 296 × 106 5/8 in. (123.2 × 751.8 × 270.8 cm)
Accession number
2024.129a-l
Acquired
2024
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Reproduction credit
© Alfredo Jaar
Department
collection

About this work

Alfredo Jaar, Geography = War, 1990. Twelve transparencies in six lightboxes with six mirrors, overall: 48 1/2 × 296 × 106 5/8 in. (123.2 × 751.8 × 270.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.129a-l. © Alfredo Jaar

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