The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana
La Habana, Cuba
2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana
In May 2012, JR collaborates with Cuban-American artist José Parlá on the latest iteration of The Wrinkles of the City: a huge mural installation in Havana, undertaken for the Havana Biennale, for which JR and Parlá photographed and recorded 25 senior citizens who had lived through the Cuban revolution, creating portraits which Parlá, who is of Cuban descent, interlaced with palimpsestic calligraphic writings and paintings.
Parlá’s markings echo the distressed surfaces of the walls he inscribes, and offer commentary on the lives of Cuba’s elders; together, JR and Parlá’s murals marvelously animate a city whose walls are otherwise adorned only by images of its leaders
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, JR explaining his project, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, Alicia Adela Hernandez Fernández, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, Alfonso Ramón Fontaine Batista, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, Elio Milanés, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, Leda Antonia Machado, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, Luisa Maria Miranda Oliva, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, Miguel Pelegrino, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, Nidia Mulet Rojas, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, Rafael Lorenzo y Obdulia Manzano, Cuba, 2012
The Wrinkles of the City, La Habana, José del Valle de Aguila, Cuba, 2012
WRINKLES OF THE CITY, HAVANA CUBA, By JR & José Parlá
WRINKLES OF THE CITY, HAVANA CUBA, De JR & José Parlá
