JR transforms his pictures into posters and makes open space photo galleries out of streets. He was part of the Tate Modern Street Art exhbition where graffiti artists from cities around the world including Bologna, Spain and Sao Paulo were invited to create 15-metre-tall art displays.

Now JR has his solo show at Lazarides Gallery, The show will be linked by a street work inspired by JR’s time spent in Rio de Janeiro, where he worked on his project, 28 Millimetres: WOMEN. In the favelas he met women for whom crime, violent loss of loved ones and arbitrary repression are part of everyday life. His response was to paste images of their eyes onto the buildings of Providencia, creating an arresting image that was seen around the world, and fuelled JR’s ongoing campaign to draw attention to things that go unnoticed.

JR - 28 Millimetres: WOMEN
Lazarides Gallery, Greek Street/Charing Cross
3 October – 14 November 2008, 11am-7pm
FREE

Lazarides Gallery web site

JR website

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