JR + José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City project, Havana, Cuba

Havana, Cuba is home to French creative JR's latest instalment in his series:   'The Wrinkles of the City'. In this project, 
JR collaborated with Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá to create this expansive, humanistic public art project.

JR photographed the city's elderly inhabitants, then created gigantic prints that were pasted onto the facades of Havana building exteriors and embellished by paint strokes by Parlá. The artists' decision to use imperfect surfaces as the base, and the addition of swirling 
and free-flowing lines, combine to provide a depth and tactile quality to each image. 

Somehow, the wrinkles and time-soaked imperfections of the portraits find a natural partnership in the city's old architectural fabric.