Salt Lake City
June 26 – September 5, 2026
In The End, internationally acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar turns his attention to the environmental crisis facing the Great Salt Lake. Through a series of photographs, Jaar documents the lake’s dramatic decline, which has lost 73 percent of its water and 60 percent of its surface area since the mid-nineteenth century.
The exhibition highlights the contrast between the lake’s beauty and its accelerating disappearance. As water levels fall, salinity increases and vast areas of lakebed become exposed, releasing dust containing arsenic, lead, and mercury into the atmosphere. Jaar’s images address the ecological and public health implications of this transformation while serving as a visual record of a landscape in crisis.
According to the artist, the photographs are presented in a deliberately modest scale “as a kind of visual whisper, a lament for our dying planet.”
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
20 S. West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
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