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JR is a photographer and artist whose identity is unconfirmed. After he found a camera in the Paris subway, he did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. Then, he started to work on the vertical limits, watching the people and the passage of life from the forbidden undergrounds and roofs of Paris. He has described himself as a "photograffeur", as he flyposts large black-and-white photographic images in public locations in a manner that is similar to the appropriation of the built environment by the graffiti artist. The artist exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. JR's work combines art and performance and its subject varies from commitment, freedom, identity and limitations. JR has exhibited his work at Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Watari-Um in Tokyo, Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, and Power Station of Art in Shanghai.

“ The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear. „

JR

JR's
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Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro (Portfolio of 4)

2021

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GIANTS, High jump in Rio

2023

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Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 18 mai 2021, 19h58, Paris, France, 2021

2021

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La Ferita, 25 Mars 2021, 19H07, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italie

2021

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Inside Out, Haiti

2012

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In the Container Wall, Le Havre, France, 2014-2020

2020

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The Chronicles of New York City, Domino Park, USA

2020

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Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 25 mai 2021, 22h18, Paris, France, 2021

2021

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Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro (Set of 2)

2021

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JR au Louvre, 29 Mars 2019, 18h08 © Pyramide, architecte I. M. Pei, musée du Louvre, Paris, France

2021

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Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 19 mai 2021, 19h57, Paris, France, 2021

2021

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JR Au Palais De Tokyo, 28 Aout 2020, 16h12, Paris, France

2020

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Unframed, Charlie Chaplin revu par JR, The Kid, Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, USA, 1923, de jour Paris

2021

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Trompe l'oeil, Death Valley, Billboard, March 4, 2017, 5:41 pm, California, USA

2021

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