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Established in 2010 and consolidated in its present form in 2013, Underdogs works with a diversified roster of Portuguese and international artists connected with the urban inspired contemporary art universe, fostering the development of close relationships between creators, the public, and the city with the aim of promoting art as an everyday experience.
JR began by creating art on the streets of Paris, later crossing borders and working all around the world – on the map displayed in the gallery, one can gain a global perspective of his journey and impact through each geographic point he crossed. From the optical illusion at the Louvre Museum in Paris to the intervention at the high-security Tehachapi prison in California, JR splits his time between creating monumental works and projects with local communities, in refugee camps, conflict zones, and other locations where the artist chooses to use art as a tool for sociopolitical transformation.
INSIDE OUT PROJECT
Photo booth van to become part of a larger public mural
28 March 2025, 3pm - 9pm
Edition of /250 Nine-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 250 g/m2 paper 70 × 50 cm 2023 _
“The first trace left by humans 17,000 years ago, the first graffiti we can even call it, were handprints. I made my hand into a big sculpture we installed at the opening of the Chauvet cave in the hills. Following the oldest ..." Listen more
Edition of /500 Four-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 44.5 × 119 cm 2009 _
“When we finished pasting the bricks, I asked people to come and pick them up. And then I said, 'Okay, now you can bring them back,' but of course, no one knew how to put them back to create the original image ..." Listen more
Edition of /250 Sixteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 250 g/m2 paper 50 × 70 cm 2020 _
"I pasted every little stair of that old school stadium, so that as people filled the stands, the eye would disappear. At this moment, you see only a few people walking around, and it gives you the scale of the image ...” Listen more
28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Action in Kibera Slum, general view Nairobi, Kenya
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Edition of /180 Twelve-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2009 _ "This was a place where people kept asking us, 'Why are you doing this?’ and each 9me I tried to explain the impact of art. But it was unclear to them why I was using paper, and I would say, 'Because paper is a ..." Listen more
Los Surcos de la Ciudad, Marino Saura Oton, Cartagena, Espagne
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Edition of /250 Seven-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 250 g/m2 paper 46 × 36 cm 2008 _
“This was my first pasting for Wrinkles of the City [...]. I ended up con9nuing to do it around the world in places where both the cityscape and its people show the impact of 9me. I’ve dedicated the project to people ...” Listen more
Migrants, Mayra, Picnic across the border, General View, Tecate, Mexico - U.S.A.
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Edition of /250 Eighteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2022 _
“This project happened at the border of Mexico and the United States. I pasted this little kid overlooking the border wall, but what you're seeing here is a bird’s eye view, taken on the last day before we dismounted ..." Listen more
Edition of /180 Lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 55 × 70 cm 2023 _
"This one was in Hong Kong, and it was a technique I had been dreaming of using for a long 9me: bamboo scaffolding [...]. There was someone very famous in the art of Feng Shui who said that it actually was not Feng ..." Listen more
28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Action in Phnom Penh, Open Eyes, Cambodge
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Edition of /250 Twelve-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 250 g/m2 paper 50 × 70 cm 2023 _
"I will always look for places where you wouldn’t think to put a photograph. This was the front door of a store that opened like an accordion. So the eye would disappear when pulled open and then reappear again ...” Listen more
The Wrinkles of The City, La Havana, Antonio Cruz Gordillo, Cuba
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Edition of /180 Nine-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 100 × 70 cm 2012 _
“This is part of the project Wrinkles of the City where I photographed wrinkled faces of the elderly and connected them with the textures of old buildings, which in Havana is not hard to find. I loved his pose and ..." Listen more
Retour à la Caverne - Acte I, 7 septembre 2023, 06h52, Palais Garnier, Paris, France
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Edition of /180 Lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2023 _
"Retour à la caverne is a very important project to me that happened recently in Paris, and this was Act One. I took over the façade of the Paris Opera and brought the stage outside to the streets. Each 9me, 10,000 people ..." Listen more
Edition of /250 Thirteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 70 × 50 cm 2021 _
"This is in my city in Paris, right on Boulevard Saint-Germain. It's me jumping over a building. I have great memories from this one because of how central that was and because it was kind of a metaphor for ...” Listen more
Edition of /180 Seven-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 100 × 70 cm 2013 _
"The building was about to be demolished, and there was a big billboard on top of it that wasn’t being used because the construction was supposed to start any day. We got permits from four different owners ...” Listen more
Edition of /180 Eleven-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 100 × 70 cm 2016 _
“The funny thing about this one is that I saw a video of a guy climbing the building and jumping from the top of the hand with the parachute. In the video, he thanked me, saying, 'I could never jump from that building ..." Listen more
Edition of /180 Lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2023 _
"This is a project I've done around the world featuring refugees and displaced people. At the end of the procession, when the whole community carries the enlarged image of a child, we use the eyes of one as a picnic ..." Listen more
Ballerina in containers, On the Edge, Le Havre, France
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Edition of /250 Twenty-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2023 _
"I became very close to the dockers and all the people working at the port. Sometimes, I would say things like, 'Let's build a blue wall with containers, and I'll place my hand, and she'll go on the top of that crate ..." Listen more
The Wrinkles of the City, Los Angeles, Lovers on the roof, USA
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Edition of /180 Ten-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 70 × 101 cm 2012 _
"This image is part of Wrinkles of the City. But actually, in Los Angeles, there aren’t many wrinkles because people love to do Botox, and they try to avoid them. I had a very hard time finding people that had wrinkles." Listen more
Trompe l'oeil, Greetings from Giza, 21 Octobre 2021, 6h01, Giza, Egypte
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Edition of /180 Sixteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2021 _
"I was authorized to make the closest ever artwork in proximity to the pyramid. They let me install this hand. I wanted to create an illusion where the top of the pyramid was floating. There are so many mysteries ..." Listen more
Edition of /180 Twenty-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2012 _
“I was in Haiti with a group of kids that were really active in their community, and they wanted to paste photos of their people. So we pasted those eyes together. It was a way for me to start the Inside Out Project, but also ..." Listen more
Punto di Fuga, 21 Juillet 2021, 05H26, Rome, Italie
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Edition of /180 Sixteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 100 × 70 cm 2021 _
"It was supposed to stay only six months, but the installation remained intact for almost two years. People still talk about it in Italy because it became a landmark where people would meet up. It was interesting to see how ..." Listen more
The Wrinkles of the City, Action in Shanghai, Shi Li, work in progress, China
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Edition of /180 Eight-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 72 × 105 cm 2010 _
“This was maybe the biggest pasting we've done in Shanghai. We had to use scaffolding to reach the wall. I have amazing memories from there — and also of being arrested in China. It was not an easy one ..." Listen more
Ballet, Regard surplombant la façade du Palais Garnier, Opéra de Paris, France
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Edition of /180 Twelve-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2014 _
"We managed to convince all the dancers to climb to the roof of the Palais Garnier. We asked them to stay on the edge and stand in a formation that created two eyes. At the end of the show, they bent in different ways, ..." Listen more
Edition of /500 Four-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 72.5 × 103 cm 2011 _
"This is really one of the first times I pasted with eyes. I remember pasting the paper strips that made the face of this incredibly powerful woman and the little kid passing by. [...] This was when I began to enjoy ...” Listen more
Tehachapi, Mountain, February 7, 2020, 6.43p.m., U.S.A.
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Edition of /180 Fourteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2020 _
"What you see is the photo of a mountain range behind the wall of a supermax security prison. With the pasting, the wall disappears. They only asked me to keep the boRom part of the wall visible because the ..." Listen more
Edition of /180 Eighteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2019 _
“I remember we had different shifts in the morning and afternoon. People came from around the world to join us, and it was so big that people didn't even realize what they were pasting. At the end of the day, ...” Listen more
Edition of /180 Fourteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 50 × 75 cm 2018 _
"It was a very symbolic image because that gate had seen a lot of history, having seen the rise and fall of the Nazis and also of the Berlin Wall. It was preRy insane that they gave us the permit to do it. And it's moving ...” Listen more
Edition of /180 Eleven-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2012 _
"This one is a pasting we did in Washington, D.C., with the famous image, I Am A Man, of the Memphis sanitation strike in 1968. We pasted it on a building located next to a post office that used to be reserved ..." Listen more
Unframed, un groupe posant dans une barque amarrée sur la plage revu par JR, Marseille vers 1930, Marseille, France
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Edition of /180 Twelve-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2013 _
"This pasting is part of Unframed, a project where I use archival images [...]. It was chosen by one migrant who had crossed the ocean with nothing, so he didn't even have a photo to give me. I said, 'Well, you can ..." Listen more
28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Action dans la Favela Morro da Providência, Escalier, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil
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Edition of /180 Eighteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 71 × 103 cm 2008 _
"We really struggled doing this pasting. It was one of the women from the community, but while working on the stairs that led to the top of the favela, there were many shootings, so we had to stop a few times...” Listen more
La Ferita, 25 Mars 2021, 19h07, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italie
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Edition of /180 Fourteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 100 × 70 cm 2021 _
"During COVID, I started the project La Ferita, literally like a scar, and the idea was to create a wound on the building so you could see inside. It was a time when you couldn't enter a museum or any other place. ..." Listen more
28 Millimètres, Women Are Heroes, Swimming Pool, Intercontinental Hotel, Verticale, Monrovia, Liberia
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Edition of /180 Ten-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 100 × 70 cm 2008 _
"I would photograph women and paste their images to show how they are the pillars and heroes of their communities. This was just after the war, in Monrovia, at the abandoned pool ..." Listen more
Trompe l'oeil, Death Valley, Billboard, March 4, 2017, 5:41 pm, California, USA
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Edition of /180 Fourteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 50 × 85 cm 2017 _
"This was a crazy project in Death Valley. We actually had to buy some land to install the structure [...] that became the cover of an ..." Listen more
Unframed, Charlie Chaplin revu par JR, The Kid, Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, USA, 1923, de jour Paris
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Edition of /180 Sixteen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 50 × 70 cm 2021 _
"I have a project called Unframed where I use photos that are not mine but are part of, you know, photographic history and archives of museums ..." Listen more
28 Millimètres, Women are Heroes, Action in Kibera Slum, Into the Wild, Kenya
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Edition of /180 Ten-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2009 _
"Not only did I paste on the sides of the train, and that's maybe what's more known, but I actually pasted eyes on the roof so that I could follow the train through Kenya all the way to Uganda ..." Listen more
Edition of /180 Seventeen-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 400 g/m2 paper 100 × 70 cm 2019 _
"The building you see the pasting on is my gallery in Cuba called Galleria Continua. And this little boy lived just across the street from the gallery. One day, I saw him peering over his balcony to look at me, and I just ..." Listen more
Edition of /250 Twelve-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 270 g/m2 paper 80 × 55 cm 2013 _
"We pasted that image during the night, but you have to know that we actually took it down before sunrise. This way, nobody ever knew if we did it or not. It was like a ghost appearing in the city.” Listen more
Edition of /180 Twenty-colour lithograph on paper printed on a Marinoni press Signed and numbered by the artist BFK Rives White 300 g/m2 paper 70 × 100 cm 2020 _
“This mural from the Chronicles series depicts 1,128 New Yorkers. The installation happened during COVID, so it could only be seen by people in the city at that time. Strangely enough, I didn't even get to see ..." Listen more
