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This past summer, French artist JR spent 10 days covering 150 cargo ship containers on a ship in the port of Le Havre, France with 2,600 pieces of paper to complete the "Women Are Heroes" series that he started in 2007. The artist explained via Instagram that he "wanted to finish 'Women Are Heroes' with a ship leaving a port, with a huge image which would look microscopic after a few minutes, with the idea of these women who stay in their villages and face difficulties in the regions torn by wars and poverty facing the infinity of the ocean."
Director Guillaume Cagniard created this short film titled JR: Rivages (which translates to "shores") of the installation process, the dock workers who assisted the artist, and the industrial environment in which the art was created.
"Through the portraits of dockers I wanted to show an example of a profession embodied by proud and solitary men," Cagniard told Nowness. "The port is a very secluded place, closed off by barriers, without women. One can only become a docker strictly through father-son legacies, which I illustrate with three generations of dockers stacked on top of each other, watching the boat drift away. With this project, we created friendships and they ended up joining us in pasting the eyes of a woman: the first woman on the port."
[via Nowness]
