《DÉPLACÉ.E.S》是一系列的装置,传播对世界各地数百万难民儿童的认识。在每一个装置中,JR和他的团队都前往一个家庭因战争、气候变化或社会不稳定而寻求庇护的地方。在社区的帮助下,他们在一块45米长的篷布上展开了一个难民儿童的照片。
乌克兰,2022
2022年3月,JR和他的团队带着一个巨大的卷起来的油布从波兰穿过边境进入乌克兰。一周前,乌克兰摄影师Artem Lurchenko向JR发送了一些儿童的照片,这些儿童为了躲避乌克兰的战争而越境进入波兰寻求庇护。其中一个孩子是5岁的瓦莱里娅,她的微笑形象被印在一块45米长的篷布上。
3月14日,在乌克兰利沃夫,JR与100名志愿者一起展开了瓦莱里娅的照片。每个人都拿着一块篷布,这个社区穿过城市,把小女孩的形象抬到了天空。她提醒那些在上面飞行的人,下面还有需要保护的人。瓦莱里娅和乌克兰的750万儿童是未来,他们的照片显示了这个国家正在为之奋斗的目标。
瓦莱里娅在乌克兰同胞的支持下,用无人机拍摄的照片登上了《时代》杂志2022年3月至4月的封面。
离开乌克兰时,JR亲眼目睹了妇女和儿童由于在边境排起长队而难以到达安全地带。作为回应,他在瓦莱里亚成立了两个nft,为逃离乌克兰的乌克兰人筹集资金。所有的收益都用于建立一个网络,为过境点的数千名难民提供食物、温暖和安慰。
《DÉPLACÉ.E.S》is a series of installations that spread awareness of the millions of refugee children around the world. For each installation, JR and his team traveled to a place where families were seeking refuge due to war, climate change, or social instability. There, with the help of the community, they unfurled an image of a refugee child on a 45-meter-long tarp.
UKRAINE, 2022
In March of 2022, JR and his team walked across the border from Poland into Ukraine carrying a giant rolled-up tarp. A week earlier, Ukrainian photographer Artem Lurchenko had sent JR images of children who were crossing into Poland to seek refuge from the war in Ukraine. One of those children was five-year-old Valeriia, whose smiling image was printed on a 45-meter-long tarp.
JR joined by one hundred volunteers unfurled Valeriia’s image in Lviv, Ukraine on March 14th. With each person holding a section of the tarp, the community moved through the city lifting the young girl’s image up to the sky. She reminded those flying above that there are people below who need to be protected. Valeriia and the 7.5 million children of Ukraine are the future, and their images show what the country is fighting for.
A drone photograph of Valeriia supported by her fellow Ukrainians was featured as the March-April 2022 cover of Time magazine.
Leaving Ukraine, JR saw firsthand how difficult it was for women and children to get to safety due to the long queues at the border. In response, he launched two NFTs of Valeriia to raise funds for Ukrainians fleeing their country. All of the proceeds went to creating a network that brought food, warmth, and comfort to the thousands of refugees at border crossings.