Artist, JR Creates Portrait Mosaic in Paris Pantheon

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French street artist and photographer JR stands among his portrait project at the Pantheon in Paris.

FRANCE---Portraits organized by French photographer JR are displayed on the ground of the Pantheon in Paris, a secular temple which contains the remains of distinguished French citizens, on Tuesday during the exhibition "Au Pantheon." The Center of National Monuments collaborated with JR's global participatory art project "INSIDE OUT," where people around the world take their own black and white portraits as a form of expression. The portraits on display, collected during March of this year, were selected to represent the "diversity of the contemporary world" and encapsulate the humanistic and universal values embodied by the Pantheon, according to the project website. [link]

Portraits from JR's project are displayed on the groups of the Pantheon

People visit the exhibition "Au Pantheon!" Courtesy of ArtDaily. 

PARIS.- A woman visits the exhibition "Au Pantheon!" by French photographer JR at the Pantheon in Paris, a secular temple which contains the remains of distinguished French citizens, on June 3, 2014. The Centre des Monuments Nationaux has chosen to commission contemporary artist JR to create a participatory work inspired by his INSIDE OUT project. AFP PHOTO MARTIN BUREAU.

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