Guns in America Cover - Time Magazine (November 5, 2018) - What 245 Americans Think About the Issue

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TIME Magazine, women's rights, gun rights, America, American Constitution, BLM Black Lives Matter, American politics

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Facing the debate on individual weapons ownership and gun violence in the United States, artists try to alert and provoke public opinion through their works, being biased or not at all.
The work I will show you dates back to 5 years; this is TIME's November 5 cover, made in collaboration with JR, a French urban artist usually exhibiting in Dallas and Paris. He imagined a picture that regrouped all opinions on the gun issue in the USA, and asked 245 Americans about it.

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[...] Guns in America Cover - Time Magazine (November 2018) - What 245 Americans Think About the Issue Guns In America: What 245 Americans Think About the Issue A Time and JR project, November 2018 I will start this presentation with a number: 232 (two hundred thirty-two). This is the age of the second amendment, which is part of the bill of rights which passed on December 15th of 1791. Facing the debate on individual weapons ownership and gun violence in the United States, artists try to alert and provoke public opinion through their works, being biased or not at all. [...]

[...] - Hunters' lobbies are in the background on top - target shooting performers and instructors. Middle - Interesting, because it combines both sides / + doubtful persons - Mixes politicians, journalists debating around a table in front of activists and demonstrators. - The left side of the table: the famous Do not cross - crime scene marked plastic (showing gun deaths) - The right side of the table: bill of rights above guns, the American constitution, congress statement and other legal files. [...]

[...] The records / stories we are told about in the interactive picture are authentic. They reveal how much guns' consequences can be dramatic. I really like this work of art because it's striking without being graphic. That's the power of art The fact that this work of art isn't so biased can make us think that the artist didn't try to convince anyone but only wanted to expose the problem / subject to let people think about it. TIME Magazine: "Today Information Means Everything" - New York press. [...]

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