Women Are Heroes, India

New Dehli-Jaipur, India

2009

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Eyes on bricks, New Delhi, India, 2009

In March 2009, JR takes Women Are Heroes to India. In Jaipur, he pastes huge white and sticky stencils to catch the dust and the colors within the context of Holi fest. Then eyes and gazes are revealed. For Women Are Heroes, JR traveled to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan, Kenya, Brazil, India and Cambodia to seek out women struggling in their everyday lives and, in his words, “to take their stories around the world”. Pasting mural-size portraitson the sides of buildings, on trains, and on bridges, he brings a haunting human presence to harsh environments of social conflict.

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, India, JR explaining his project, 2009

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Eye on Brick, In Action, New Delhi, India, 2009

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Eye in Jaipur, Holi Fest, India, 2009

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Eye in Jaipur, Holi Fest, India, 2009

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Eye in Jaipur, Holi Fest, India, 2009

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Eye in Jaipur, Holi Fest, India, 2009

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Eye in Jaipur, Holi Fest, India, 2009

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Eye in Jaipur, Holi Fest, India, 2009

28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Eye in Jaipur, Holi Fest, India, 2009