Images 2010

From September 4th to 26th 2010, The visual arts festival IMAGES in Vevey (Switzerland), presents during three weeks huge photography exhibitions by 100 reknown and international contemporary artists, turning the city into a museum of visual art. For this occasion, the art festival produces indoors exhibitions in differents places but also monumental open-air installations. To mark this ambition on the international scene, the Images festival will present a new urban project from the artist JR created in co-production with the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne. This project, entitled Unframed, is a new urban project specially created for the city of Vevey. After others monumental projects like Women are Heros or Face to Face, JR explores for the first time in his career the collections of the Musée de l’Elysée. Through this specific work, he reinterprets and revisits some works by Robert Capa, Gilles Caron, Helen Levitt and others. As always, his work is put up on walls, taking out the original work out of context, giving him an other dimension by transforming the city in an open-sky museum.