JR's "Pattern" @ Hong Kong Exhibition

 French artist JR conceptualized a Hong Kong project uniquely see 16 large-scale photos of human faces pasted in an outdoor location in Hong Kong recently. This outdoor installation, co-presented by Galerie Perrotin and the Consulate General of France formed part of the artist’s global art project INSIDE OUT that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Through the use black and white photographic portraits the public is challenged to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world.

 JR creates monumental photographs that he pastes around the world, infiltrating in urban life anonymous portraits, witnesses of the present and the past - “Women are Heroes” in Rio de Janeiro, Jaipur, Nairobi (2008- 2010), which gave its title to JR’s movie that was selected at the Festival de Cannes in 2010 ; «The Wrinkles of the City» in Cartagena, Shanghai, Los Angeles (2008-2011).

 

JR reveals art by action, displaying his gigantic prints over the suburban buildings of Paris, on walls in the Middle East or in the United States, in favelas in Brazil or on broken bridges in Africa, on the facade of Tate Modern in London. He received the prestigious TED Prize in 2011 that offered him to make a “wish to change the world”. With the INSIDE OUT Project, JR brings together and prints portraits, as messages of personal identity photobooths printing largescale self-portraits were seen during the summer in various places of the globe, including Paris (Centre Pompidou, Galerie Perrotin), Arles (Rencontres de la Photographie), Tel Aviv or Ramallah, and now Hong Kong at Galerie Perrotin.

    

The exhibition “Pattern” was displayed for the first time photographs and wood panels from the INSIDE OUT series. JR’s very first experimentation with cast aluminum, sculptures in a crinkled effect, featuring the dot patterned eyes, characteristic of INSIDE OUT imagery was also revealed Committed art, street art, participative art, ephemeral art, beyond any category, JR makes us reflect by inviting on stage anonymous heroes, displaying the multiple faces of humanity.