PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION - DESTRUCTION

In 2013, JR learned that the buildings that featured the original pastings in Les Bosquets were soon to be demolished, so he revisited the Portrait of a Generation project. Using the photographs from the original series, JR and his team secretly pasted two-storey-high portraits in the buildings before they were knocked down. During the demolition, the portraits were exposed, creating a new dialogue between the recent history of Paris, its suburbs and their inhabitants.