Paper & Glue - Film Screening & Art Reception

82 State Street,Newburyport MA 01950

11 December, 2021

Description

Film Screening & Reception - presented by The Screening Room and The PEG Center for Art and Activism Known for his massive, site-specific paste-ups, French artist J.R. works at the intersection of photography, street art, filmmaking, and social engagement. Saturday, December 11th at 1pm, join The Screening Room and The PEG Center for Art and Activism for an inspirational event featuring a screening of his latest film, Paper & Glue, including an introduction by gallerist Paula Estey and a post-screening reception at her gallery. At the reception, The PEG Center will unveil “Lost & Found,” community street art murals by Alex Brien of Elevated Thought (Project funded by a special grant from Essex County Community Foundations Creative County Initiative). Paper & Glue documents J.R. over two decades as he travels from an apartment complex in a Parisian banlieue to a maximum security prison in Texas, and from Tecate, California on the US-Mexico border to Morro de Providência, a favela outside of Rio. Turning portraits of the people he works with in these communities into large-scale photo interventions and digitally collaged murals, his work is POWERFUL. It challenges attitudes that people can be “out of sight, out of mind” while affirming the humanity of subjects too often ignored or stereotyped. A visual and inspirational feast, Paper & Glue shows how temporary art installations can work to validate and inspire.