French artist JR gave WWD an inside look at his work – including the project that some said would get him killed.
“People think I’m a photographer — I’m not,” says JR from behind his signature dark sunglasses. “Photography is just a medium. The pasting is the art, and the art is the process of doing it with the people.”
Most of the pieces were already in place, including his latest work, a large-scale collaged mural of New Yorkers stretching across four walls of the space. But the image that he points to as launching his career was still in the process of going up on the wall welcoming visitors into the exhibition space.
He started making photocopies of his photos and wheatpasting them around town with his tag, framing them with spray paint and increasing the scale of the images as he went. It’s an idea that the artist has continued to explore — challenging stereotypes by highlighting humanity through specificity — next in Israel and Palestine as the two countries built a wall along the border. For “Face to Face” he and artist friend Marco photographed Israelis and Palestinians who worked in the same professions — two actors, two sculptors, two security guards, two teachers — again with each posing how they imagined the other would see them.
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