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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

JR

Oct 1 – Nov 20, 2021
ピラミデビル1F, 6 Chome-6-9 Roppongi, Minato City, Tokyo 106-0032, Japan

In 2004, in response to major riots, the French photographer JR installed huge images of young African immigrants in the suburbs of Paris. A year later he traveled East, where he fixed cheerful photographs of Israelis and Palestinians arm-in-arm along the dangerous Israeli-Palestinian border. Over the years, JR’s black-and-white photo canvases and installations have turned up in all kinds of places—Paris’s Marais, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, and the U.S.-Mexican border. This show features early iterations of JR’s “Unframed” series, along with new works he created during lockdown in Paris. —E.C.

JR, “Ballet, Sur les Toits du Louvre #4,” 2021 © JR / ADAGP 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.