Photographer and street artist JR has a new book, Women Are Heroes: A Global Project by JR. It documents his art across the world:
One Liberian man had a rather brilliant explanation when another villager asked him [what the point of JR’s work is]. “You have been here for a moment looking at the portraits, asking questions, trying to understand,” he replied. “During that time, you haven’t thought about what you will eat tomorrow. This is art.”
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In the Kibera district of Nairobi, Kenya, for example, JR decided that the best way to show off the faces of local women was to put the bottom half of each face on a sheet of corrugated iron below train tracks and the top half on the side of a train that regularly passed over the tracks. That meant that each day as the train passed through, top and bottom half would match up, creating a complete face for a few magical seconds. … And women who had felt ignored and marginalized by their community for decades became—at least for a brief while—its large and mysterious stars.
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