If you're baffled by the large black and white photographic images off angelic looking children that have been appearing on walls around" Dublin city centre, then an explanation now follows. They're the work of 37 year old French artist Louis Jammes and depict young citizens of Sarajevo caught up in the conflict of the recent war.
Mr Jammes visited the city five times over a 14 month period prior to this he had also recorded the lives of gypsies, Palestinians and the people of Chernobyl. This show first went on display in Sarajevo itself, where some of the images are still visible, and it has since been seen in Madrid, Helsinki, Strasbourg and Paris the last of these at designer, Agnes B's Galerie du Jour which, will also host his next exhibition in, April.
During the 1980s, Louis Jammes, was part of a loose affiliation, known as the Figuration Libre which had associations with like minded artists in New York, the black leather jacket he wears is covered in graffiti applied almost a decade ago by the likes of the late Keith Haring. The work he has now put up around the capital may be almost as long last ing the plan is that it should remain in place until obliterated by the elements.
Backing for the project comes from Bono (who with his fellow Passengers released the single Miss Sarajevo, last year) and the recently established Academy of Everything is Possible. What is the AEP? For the moment, its originators prefer to keep, it a surprise, but promise, that within the next six weeks all will be as clear as one of Mr Jammes's photographs.