Para WOMEN ARE HEROES, JR viajó a Sierra Leone, Liberia, sudan, Kenia, Brasil, India y Cambodia, buscando mujeres luchando en su vida diaria, para, en sus palabras "tomar historias de todo el mundo"
Pegando retratos tamaño mural en lados de edificios, trenes, puentes, evoca la presencia humana en un entorno de conflictos y luchas sociales.
BRAZIL
“It’s a project made of bric-a-brac, like the favela itself. We had to adapt to this world where the roofs of houses are made of plastic and children’s revolver are made of steel. We managed to get by in spite of the steep streets, the unsteady houses, the unpredictable electric cables and the exchanges of gunshots where the bullets sometimes go through several houses at once”
CAMBODIA
These Cambodian women are at crucial points in their struggle. They are fighting to hold onto their houses in the Day Krahorn slum on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The city is currently experiencing a real estate boom in which rents are soring and many new buildings are being constructed.
The women are fighting against the expropriation of their land, which is where they live, and also the place where they , their children and grandchildren were all born.
INDIA
In March 2009, JR takes Women Are Heroes to India.
In Jaipur, he pastes huge white and sticky stencils to catch the dust and the colors within the context of Holi fest.
Then eyes and gazes are revealed.
AFRICA
Most of the women have their own photos on their own rooftop. With the eyes on the train, the bottom half of the their faces ware pasted on corrugated sheets on the slope that leads down from the tracks to the rooftops. The idea being that for the split second the train passes, their eyes match their smiles and their faces are complete.
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