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Exhibition: JR’s Black and White Night

JR

Inside Out Inside Out: Face To Face To Face (City Hall, 100 Queen West)

Your Eyes Inside Out (Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen West)

Les Bosquets Les Bosquets In Toronto (Design Exchange, 234 Bay)

The Eyes Of The Bridge (Bay and Front)

JR started out as a Paris street artist in the mid-aughts. Now the TED Prize winner travels the world making outdoor photographic projects and films that have considerable cachet and official approval – including from Nuit Blanche, which offers him its first multi-venue solo exhibition. His installations usually involve large-scale paper portraits of locals that are plastered up in public spaces, reaching an audience that doesn’t frequent galleries and museums. 

Inside Out is an ongoing global project that’s appeared at more than 30 locations in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, including favelas and conflict zones. People take their pictures in his giant mobile photo booth, and the resulting poster-sized prints can become part of his installation or be glued up elsewhere. At Face To Face To Face he offers the option of adding a statement. Enlarged eyes from iterations of Inside Out form a projection work at Campbell House. (They’re among Nuit Blanche’s 14 extended projects, which remain on view until October 12.)

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At the Design Exchange, Les Bosquets includes both portraits of Paris banlieue residents and a film about a New York City Ballet performance inspired by the 2005 riots in the immigrant communities on the outskirts of Paris. Further south on Front, he mounts The Eyes Of The Bridge, an outdoor video projection of the eyes of refugees and impoverished people who hope to immigrate to Canada.

Empowering experience or “United Colors of Benetton” clone? We’ll see on October 3.

art@nowtoronto.com | @franschechter

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