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Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
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Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008
Swimming Pool Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008

Swimming Pool

Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia, 2008

€1,900.00
Tax excluded
5000
Dimensions : 40 x 27.5 inches approx.
Date : June 2016
New

Technique : 10 colors lithograph printed on Marinoni machine
Paper : White paper BFK Rives - 270 grams

Numbered /180 on the bottom left corner
Signed by JR on the bottom right corner (stamp and lead)
Lithograph shipped unframed

The price displayed is exclusive of VAT: VAT will be added at the time of payment if delivery is within the European Union.
Description

In February 2008, JR goes to Liberia for the Women Are Heroes project. His intention is to underline the pivotal role of women in society and to highlight their dignity by shooting them in their daily lives and posting their portraits. 

After his first trip during which he shot the portraits, JR went back in the region for the posting. He was much awaited. Followed by a crowd of kids, he started to post the portraits. This was the swimming pool of the Intercontinental Hotel in Monrovia. It was a luxury hotel and then became a refuge for squatters during the civil war. These eyes are Haya’s. Her life changed completely during the war.

 When JR posted the pictures of these women, the reactions were immediate, raw, and sometimes brutal. Why faces? Why women? Did they do something special? Why here? Why is it in black and white, don’t they have colours in France? Are these women all dead? Those who understood the project explained and shared it with the others.

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