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Large-scale work on view in the Museum: JR, Les Enfants d’Ouranos, Bois #6, 2022. Ink on wood, oak frame. 50 ½ x 80 x 2 ½ in. ©JR. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
Talk | JR on Les Enfants d’Ouranos
Followed by a book signing for Artist Until I Find A Real Job
June 9, 2023, 6 pm - 7 pm
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Join the artist JR (b. 1983, Paris, France) as he discusses the impetus for his Déplacé.e.s series, and shares details of his experiences at the refugee camps and collaborations with a variety of communities to create art together. Following the talk, JR will be available for a book signing of his most recent catalogue raisonné, Artist Until I find a Real Job.
The talk is held in conjunction with Les Enfants d’Ouranos, JR’s large-scale, site-specific installation on the south façade of the Museum. The 200-foot long banner, depicting children playing, covering a wide span of the exterior wall, will be visible from the Montauk Highway for an entire year.
Les Enfants d’Ouranos (Children of Ouranos) continues JR’s previous work for Déplacé.e.s, featuring children from refugee camps in Rwanda, Ukraine, Mauritania, Greece, and Colombia. The project comprised aerial photographs of 170-foot-long banners—carried by groups of people around the camp or a city—that depict the full image of a child running playfully. Les Enfants d’Ouranos also presents images of carefree children from the same refugee camps but removed from their original context, and transported into an idealized world.
JR works at the intersection of photography, public art, filmmaking, and social engagement. Over the last two decades, he has developed multiple public projects and numerous site-specific interventions in cities all over the world: from buildings in the slums around Paris, to the walls in the Middle East and Africa or the favelas of Brazil.
Friday Nights are made possible, in part by Weill Cornell Medicine – Southampton and The Corcoran Group
Talk | JR on Les Enfants d’Ouranos
Followed by a book signing for Artist Until I Find A Real Job
June 9, 2023, 6 pm - 7 pm
REGISTER
Join the artist JR (b. 1983, Paris, France) as he discusses the impetus for his Déplacé.e.s series, and shares details of his experiences at the refugee camps and collaborations with a variety of communities to create art together. Following the talk, JR will be available for a book signing of his most recent catalogue raisonné, Artist Until I find a Real Job.
The talk is held in conjunction with Les Enfants d’Ouranos, JR’s large-scale, site-specific installation on the south façade of the Museum. The 200-foot long banner, depicting children playing, covering a wide span of the exterior wall, will be visible from the Montauk Highway for an entire year.
Les Enfants d’Ouranos (Children of Ouranos) continues JR’s previous work for Déplacé.e.s, featuring children from refugee camps in Rwanda, Ukraine, Mauritania, Greece, and Colombia. The project comprised aerial photographs of 170-foot-long banners—carried by groups of people around the camp or a city—that depict the full image of a child running playfully. Les Enfants d’Ouranos also presents images of carefree children from the same refugee camps but removed from their original context, and transported into an idealized world.
JR works at the intersection of photography, public art, filmmaking, and social engagement. Over the last two decades, he has developed multiple public projects and numerous site-specific interventions in cities all over the world: from buildings in the slums around Paris, to the walls in the Middle East and Africa or the favelas of Brazil.
Friday Nights are made possible, in part by Weill Cornell Medicine – Southampton and The Corcoran Group
