JR’s works and talent will be given pride of place in Paris this winter. The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) will open from November 7, 2018 to February 10, 2019 to JR’s monographic exhibition: “Momentum, la mécanique de l’épreuve” [Momentum, the mechanic of the ordeal]
Behind this title, “Momentum”, hides this dynamic driving JR to come to a city or in the heart of a community to offer a new face, alter the perception or giving an original reading.
This compelling exhibition will especially return on JR’s debuts when he was a graffiti artist as well as on his first photos and collages.
The visitor can also discover impressive series: portrait d’une génération or Portrait of a generation in English (an illegal project of portraits display taken with a 28 mm lens); Women are heroes (underlying the dignity of women who often are the first victims during conflicts or wars); The Wrinkles of the City (which action aim at revealing the story and the remembrance of a country or a city by focusing on the inhabitants’ wrinkles); Unframed…
The biggest fans will discover a unique interactive wall. The latter will explore the impossible gun control in the United States.
Ultimately, this exhibition will be accompanied by a cycle of screenings to be discovered in the weekend from 3 p.m. at the MEP auditorium. Alone or with close artists and movie makers, JR signs the making of several movies of this cycle.
SATURDAY’S PROGRAM
SUNDAY’S PROGRAM
Dates and Opening Time
From November 7, 2018 to February 10, 2019
Location
European House of Photography
7 Rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris 4
Access
Metro Saint Paul (line 1) Metro Pont Marie (line 7)
Official website
www.mep-fr.org