Selected workAlfredo Jaar
Santiago de Chile, 1956
The Colour of Our Lives
How can a work of art respond to a sublime landscape? How can it reflect, articulate, illuminate and engage with the perfect process of making the wines of Otazu?
My proposal consists of three glass cubes of different sizes, corresponding to the production of red, white and rosé wine at the Otazu estate. Each cube is filled with purified water free of toxic agents and, at its base, below ground, sits a computer-controlled LED lighting device.
From that device an operator can set the exact colour of each cube, matching it to the wine of the harvest at any given moment, in all its chromatic richness. The system lights the cubes day and night and creates a light sculpture of great visual power.
With this work my intention is to match the science and the rigour, but also the sophistication, the clarity and the perfection of the process of making the wines of Otazu.











