28 millimetres : The rise of the erased

have you ever heard about 28 millimetres.com ?

I write this in english (well, I try) 'cause every french talking person knows about the story of Sarkozy, France interior minister who said that "the city of the 4000" (mm, nothing to do with the 4400) "should be washed with a karcher".

A "karcher" is a very known product in Europe (Alfred Kärcher GmbH) manufacturer of air and pressure cleaning ...

You can use a karcher to wash vomit on beautiful tiles, stains of grease, or dead leaves when your back or knees hurt in front of work with simple methods ...

Well. This city of the 4000 is a kind of ghetto, where the only fact of living there give creeps to potential work givers, and the conditions of living and all, makes it a place on the edge... of rage, too. (see second clip)

As a indefinite group, with no assessment of its potential, the 4000, and all the other "cities of buildings" around the main and chic down-town is a kind of magma "to wash", to "clean" of the face of the beautiful city . Or so "they" say...

Faces...
Identities. Smiles. Kid gimmicks...

With his camera, JR walks around these places, taking images of the people living there...

If some people would like to erase others, like you wash a tag on a wall, he puts these faces bigger than a commercial for lenses or to erase spots from faces ...

Smiling tags on the walls

The idea is beautiful. I simply love it !

See for yourself :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWu-BSIUs2E


and here is the link to 28 millimetres.com

http://www.28millimetres.com/



And here is the song : The Rage, which exploded from these words, like a tiny drop of water.
karcher pressurized drop ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92o_Bn4Uw-w