Women are Heroes, 28 Millimètres, Brazil
JR
- Artist: JR
- About: Lithographie, handsigniert
- Size: 100 x 70cm (height x width)
- Edition: 250
- Item no: 25849
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About Women are Heroes, 28 Millimètres, Brazil
The photography was created within the global project 'Women Are Heroes'.
The project started in 2008 in Morro da Providência in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This favela is a place whose name has become synonymous with violence in Rio. For the project, JR pasted large-scale, haunting photographs of women's faces and eyes onto crumbling walls and barracks. A year later, JR founded Casa Amarela, a cultural center on the hill of the favela, to further social change through art.
The photograph features the peaceful portrait of Benedita Florencio Monteiro, who lost her grandson who was kidnapped and murdered by armed militias from a rival favela. JR doesn't just photograph people, he engages with them and documents their personal stories. In conversation with JR, Benedita Florencio Monteiro told of her hope: "We want peace and justice here. My dream is to buy a house somewhere else and leave this place."
JR has mounted Benedita Florencio Monteiro's portrait as a pasting on the favela's main central staircase for all to see.
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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