![]() In North Dakota, 60 portraits were placed in the Standing Rock Reservation by the representatives of the 7 th generation of the Lakota tribe to make visible that they still exist. His most recent project, financed with the $100.000 award money provided by TED, is even more participatory in nature: Inside Out invites people to upload their own portraits which are then transformed by JR into large-scale posters and sent back to their clients enabling them to paste them at locations relevant to their individual projects. ![]() 4 Having been awarded the TED prize in 2011 at the age of 27, JR has now become famous on a global scale also exhibiting his works in galleries such as the MOCA Museum Los Angeles, the Centre Pompidou Paris, the Tate Modern London or the Magda Danysz Gallery in Shanghai. The visual axis is provokingly directed to Rio de Janeiro’s fancy center and glamorous water-front drives: An ironic re-interpretation of Orwell’s 1984, with the female gaze constantly reminding of the ongoing drug war and the city’s destructive class hierarchies. In Morro de Providencia, one of the most dangerous favelas in the hills of Rio de Janeiro, the paste ups show large pairs of eyes belonging to the favela’s female residents.
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