Visages Villages (real. Agnès Varda & JR)

"As they move around France wherever the fancy — and the editing, by Varda and Maxime Pozzi-Garcia — take them, JR and Varda are like a miniature travelling circus, rolling into town and getting everyone to join in their latest prank. Those pranks are sometimes implicitly political, although politics per se never comes into the discussion: still, the photo projects are often exercises in celebrating French working-class identity. (...) In the Situationist tradition of rethinking and transforming everyday life, JR and Varda travel round offering little presents (...) to people and communities they encounter. They do it not with the loftiness of professional art people dropping their bounty, but in a spirit of collaboration and openness"