Alfredo Jaar ( born 1956 ) is a Chilean-born artist , architect , and filmmaker who lives in New York City . He was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile . From age 5 to 16 , he lived in Martinique before moving back to Chile . He is mostly known as an installation artist , often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war - the best known perhaps being the 6-year-long '' The Rwanda Project '' about the 1994 Rwandan genocide . He has also made numerous public intervention works , like '' The Skoghall Konsthall '' one-day paper museum in Sweden , an early electronic billboard intervention '' A Logo For America '' , and '' The Cloud '' , a performance project on both sides of the Mexico-USA border . He has been featured on Art : 21
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Alfredo Jaar