Action in Phnom Penh, Peng Panh, Cambodia
JR
- Artist: JR
- About: Lithografie, handsigniert
- Size: 72.5 x 103cm (height x width)
- Edition: 500
- Item no: 25847
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About Action in Phnom Penh, Peng Panh, Cambodia
The photograph was created within the global project 'Women Are Heroes'. In 2009, an action of the project took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. For the project, JR pasted large-scale, haunting photographs of women's faces and eyes onto crumbling walls and barracks.
The women shown are at a crucial point in their struggle. They are fighting to keep their homes in the Day Krahorn slum on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The city is currently experiencing a real estate boom, with rents skyrocketing and many new buildings being constructed. The women of the slum are fighting the city and government authorities and the developers, trying to prevent them and their families from being evicted and "relocated" to a place unknown to them, often very far from the city center. They are fighting against the expropriation and dissolution of their neighborhood, where they live and where they, their children and grandchildren were born.
The lithograph is printed with a traditional printing press of Marinoni on white art paper in limited edition with embossing stamp of the printer, signed by JR in the lower right corner (original pencil signature) and numbered in the lower left corner.
About JR
JR - the internationally renowned French street art artist. About the artist The artist, born in Paris in 1983, works under his initials JR (Jean-René) and deliberately remains anonymous. By doing so, he does not want to put his person in the foreground, but his work. JR is considered the rising star in the sky of street art. At the latest around 2011 JR attained to his international reputation with the appreciation by the TED Prize. This award is given for bold visionary ideas that want to change the world. In 2013, there was the first museum retrospective of JR's work. Since then, his works have been continuously shown internationally in renowned museums, including the Tate Modern in London, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and the Kunsthalle Munich. Street Art: he Street as a Place of Art Growing up in the banlieues of Paris, JR became interested in street culture at an early age. At the age of 17, he found a camera in the Paris metro, started taking photos, and pasted them on the walls of buildings with the words 'Expo de rue' (street exhibition). This is how JR combined photography with street art. He quickly found that his photographs were noticed by passers-by and created an emotional effect. JR's first exhibition venues were the streets of Paris, and later the world. »I own the biggest gallery in the world - the walls of the city!« – JR The...
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