Invaluable

In 1985, Alfredo Jaar spent weeks at Serra Pelada - an open-pit gold mine in northeastern Brazil where 80,000 men dug by hand for gold, carrying earth on their backs up terraced mud slopes. Gold in the Morning shows seven of those miners, their gaze directed toward you. Jaar presents the image in a lightbox - imitating the format of advertising - so that the visual language of consumerism frames the human cost of extraction.

This edition was published for Documenta 11 in 2002. Coming to auction at: https://ow.ly/qypr5100iy9