Shanghai Biennial
October the 23rd 2010 to February the 28th 2011
18Gallery – Magda Danysz, 18 Zhongshan, Shanghai from October the 26th 2010 to December 11th 2010
Through the town from October the 23rd 2010
Information : clemence@mnacommunication.com
Wrinkles of the City / Les sillons de la ville / Los Surcos de a Ciudad /城市肌理, is a world scale project by JR.
The project starts with portraits of elderly people who represent the memory of a city past. JR interviews each person and records the changes witnessed in the city.
Then these portraits, printed in monumental sizes, are pasted in the very same city in various places that inspire JR and represent the city’s heritage. Memory can stumble and fall – disappear any minute as the elderly leave us – JR shows us that it is important not to forget what the elderly have to pass on to younger generations. Without any judgment, JR just gives us bits of history in an artistic, yet poetic, social and above all, human way.
JR brings his Wrinkles of the City project to Shanghai, a place that has been full of ups and downs: Japanese occupation, establishment of the Communist Party, The Liberation, World War II, the end of foreign concessions, Mao Zedong victory over General Chiang Kai-Shek’s troops, the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, all of which formed and shaped the development of Shanghai.