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Exhibition

Alfredo Jaar. Inferno & Paradiso

Photo Elysée

Date

26 June – 01 November 2026

Venue

Photo Elysée

© Johanna-Maria Fritz

Inferno & Paradiso is an immersive slide-projection exhibition created by Alfredo Jaar, one of the most socially active artists of our day. For this show, Jaar selected 20 contemporary reportage photographers and asked each of them to choose two images from their archives – the most painful one they had taken and the most hopeful one.

 

Like Virgil in Dante’s Divine Comedy, Jaar takes us on a journey through heaven and hell, confronting us with our own (in)sensitivity in the face of the relentless flow of images of human suffering.

Inferno & Paradiso presents 40 photographs taken by 20 reportage photographers selected by Jaar for their ability to distill the complexity of humankind in the modern era. From Ukraine to Argentina, Gaza to New York, and the Congo to the Philippines, the photographers document many of the crises afflicting our society; but they also capture the joy and happiness inherent in our world. It is that dichotomy – a world caught between heaven and hell – that underpins this project.

Price

CHF 15.- / 12.-

© Hannah Reyes Morales