JR

JR is a French artist and street graffiti artist, JR stands for JR’s initials, namely Jean-Rene. He uses the walls, the roof, and even the floor to create art in public areas of the street. He said the street is the largest art gallery in the world and city is best gallery. This project includes many different subjects, all of which are used to shoot portraits with 28mm lenses. The first output of this project is Portrait of generation, JR’s first Parisian wall exhibition, where he pastes photographs onto buildings in the Paris slum of Les Bosquets, portraits of a generation that make us look straight into the eyes of the men playing the bad boys. The second project is Face 2 Face, the largest illegal photography exhibition ever organized by JR and Marco. It’s a perennial puzzle about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and they try to find a reason, but they find that except for their religion, these people all look the same; They almost speak the same language, like twin brothers who grew up in different families. The Face 2 Face project involves taking portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and Posting them face to face in a giant format in places where both Israeli and Palestinian sides can’t avoid. In the end, we want everyone to laugh and think by seeing other people’s portraits as well as their own. JR travels to the Middle East and finds that women are the backbone of the region, but men are still in power, leading him to think that women are often the main victims of war, crime, rape, and political or religious fanaticism. JR’s intention with the Women Are Heroes project is to highlight the key role of women in society by photographing them in everyday life and pasting their pictures in meaningful places such as in their village, a nearby city or on the other side of the world. The last project to be introduced, Woman, Life, Freedom, was launched in 2022 to support those who are fighting for women’s rights, democracy and freedom. In the wake of the hijab incident in Iran, Nika disappeared after he was videotaped burning a hijab during a protest in the capital Tehran on September 20, 2022. A week later, her family was told she had died. Woman, Life, Freedom This installation installs Nika’s portrait on the ground and consists of people forming Nika’s hair.

Powerpoint link：https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oLwtwYSb5K6ps034EjWNqshTF-AtJtNM5yp2h_DNxII/edit#slide=id.p

JR website：https://www.jr-art.net/