JR x 28 Millimetres: WOMEN

If you are in London over the next two months you have to go see JR’s exhibition 28 Millimetres: Women at Lazarides Gallery.This is JR’s first solo show, which might lead you to think he is a ‘rising star’. Maybe he is a little, but most rising stars haven’t had the Tate Modern put one of your images up the side of their building. His work with the Tate and around the world as a street artist involves blowing pictures up and plastering them on walls. Which leads us to his exhibition at Lazarides. JR has always tried to focus on those things that go unnoticed, but shouldn’t. Spending time in Rio de Janerio he became confronted with troubling stories of women being overlooked spite being victims of some serious crimes. His response was to plaster photos of the eyes of these woman across the buildings in Rio. Have a closer look at the image above and you can see sets of eyes asking for help and looking out for one another. The exhibition at Lazarides Greek Street and Charing Cross location. The really cool thing is that the two galleries are linked together by some of JR’s large scale street art work. The exhibition begins today and runs through November 14th.