Referring to photojournalism, Jaar’s installation employs a similar strategy to construct narrative. Viewers are guided through “Shadows” by light and sequential images that simultaneously illuminate and obscure readings of moments of loss, reverence and collective transcendence. Jaar pairs newspaper clippings with a single face, extracted from the crowd and enlarged, to “rescue it”-he claims-from anonymity and oblivion.3 This concept of rescue-a kind of reframing of the content within a new context-also applies to what the artist intends as a trilogy of works, each dedicated to a single image.

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