PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION Favorite 

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Date: 

Jan 1 2004

Location: 

Paris

After a first illegal exhibition on the walls of the Cité des Bosquets, JR settles in the heart of this neighborhood and the neighboring projects of La Forestière, in Clichy-sous-Bois, where the 2005 riots started in the French suburbs.

The first portraits are displayed on the walls of the last popular neighborhoods of the capital, in Eastern Paris.

These images challenge the passers-by, in the sense that they question the social and media representation of a generation can be seen only at the gates of Paris.

External sources: 

http://www.jr-art.net/projects/portrait-of-a-generation
Posted by kmurphy1189 on Mar 29 2018

Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.