Portrait of a generation, Ladj Ly

JR (1983) is a major artist on the contemporary art scene, working at the intersection of photography, street art, cinema and social engagement. He has worked on numerous public projects over the past two decades, and his works have been shown in cities all over the world: on buildings in the slums around Paris, on walls in the Middle East and Africa, and on favelas in Brazil. Recent exhibitions include "Chronicles at the Saatchi Gallery in London" (2021), "The Chronicles of San Francisco at SFMOMA in San Francisco" (2019) and "Momentum, la mécanique de l'épreuve at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris" (2018). JR is also the director of three feature-length documentaries: Women Are Heroes (2011); the Oscar-nominated Visages Villages (2017), co-directed by Agnès Varda; and most recently, Paper and Glue (2021).