BRAFA | Booth 53: ART FAIR

At BRAFA, in Booth 53, Gallery La Patinoire Royale Bach presents a group exhibition featuring Alfredo Jaar, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Thomas Devaux, Olga de Amaral, Marthe Wéry, Lita Albuquerque, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Evelyne Axell, Antoine Carbonne, Peter Klasen, Erró, Luzia Simons and Joana Vasconcelos.

Alfredo Jaar's Life Magazine, April 19, 1968 (1995) is a special highlight of the fair. composed of three large lightboxes. Using a documentary photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral published in Life Magazine, Jaar intervenes with his characteristic precision, replacing faces with black or red dots to expose racial inequities and the politics of representation. The black dots mark African American mourners, while the red dots identify White attendees, transforming the image into a stark commentary on persistent racial imbalance. Created during Jaar’s research for Searching for Africa in Life (1996), the work similarly reveals the absence and erasure embedded in visual archives.