JR's Latest Monumental Work Overlooks the US-Mexico Border

The French street artist has installed a giant paste-up of a one-year old Mexican boy peering over the US border wall in Tecate, a small city in Mexico.

Known for his ginormous black-and-white photographic installations that explore freedom and identity, JR’s latest work – his first in Mexico – rises 70 feet up over the United States-Mexico border wall.
Only fully visible from the American side in San Diego County, JR’s as yet untitled project draws attention to the ongoing rife abound the US-Mexico border wall from the ingenious perspective of a child; a child who doesn’t see, much less understand the concept of territorial borders.
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The little boy, who is curiously peeking over the current border partition, lives in Tecate with his mother, who gave JR permission to install his work on her land. The French artist got the idea for the work in a dream. Past works have involved pasting his impactful imagery directly onto walls, like his Face 2 Face project on the Israeli West Bank barrier, but here he wanted to highlight the ridiculousness of the border wall by creating something bigger than it.