the smile of a Ukrainian girl deployed on the forecourt of the Town Hall
Between 100 and 200 people were deployed in the capital, a giant tarp representing a 5-year-old Ukrainian girl who had taken refuge in Poland, a work by artist JR already deployed in Lviv in mid-March.
Between 100 and 200 people deployed on Wednesday on the forecourt of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris a giant tarp representing a 5-year-old Ukrainian girl who had taken refuge in Poland, a work by the French artist JR already deployed in Lviv in mid-March.
“You are going to remind all the people up there, flying over Ukraine, that there are people like you that we have to protect,” the photo collage artist explained during a video call with Valeria, a Ukrainian refugee girl in Poland with her mother.
“Resilience in Ukraine”
Appearing between her cap and her jacket, the smile of Valeria crossing the Polish border with her mother had been immortalized by a photographer.
JR had the photo printed on a fabric 46m high and 16m wide before traveling to Lviv for the Innocent on March 14 in the city’s Opera Square, with the help of a hundred of people.
The prize photo of the sky with a drone by Gary Bialas, a collaborating photographer of JR, immediately made the front page of the American weekly Time under the title “resilience in Ukraine”.
“Give visibility to this work”
In Paris, the 150 kg tarpaulin was redeployed Wednesday morning to “give visibility to this work”, explains to AFP Gary Bialas, who rented a 60 m crane for the shooting, for lack of authorization pour a drone.
The operation will be repeated in several European cities, indicated Gary Bialas, for whom the digital sale of the work in the form of NFT (non-fungible tokens, in French), which uses the same technology as crypto-currencies such as the bitcoin, allows JR to deliver humanitarian, material and food aid twice a week in Ukraine.
The photographer was not able to indicate the revenues generated by these certified digital objects related to this work.