With Studies on Happiness, Public Interventions, Alfredo Jaar explores the intersections of art, society, and collective emotion. Created during the political upheaval of 1980s Chile, the work examines happiness amid social and political repression. Jaar’s public interventions invited dialogue and reflection, questioning the meaning of happiness within a highly controlled society.

The six gelatin silver prints document these interventions, capturing individual and collective reactions while transforming urban spaces into platforms for confrontation and introspection.