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I Love Lyon, Lyon © Jacques Rival

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Jacques Rival

Trained as an architect, Jacques Rival creates monumental objects and ephemeral outdoor installations, which play with the scale of our immediate environment and alters the perception of its immutability. He likes to intervene directly on elements of the cityscape such as sculptures, rivers and parks.

For ‘I Love Lyon’, he appropriated the monumental statue of Louis XIV of Place Bellecour and wrapped it in an inflated snow dome. Merging the reality of the equestrian sculpture with its reproduction, he reconciled the aspirations of such long-standing homage with its vernacular use of as ready-made and disposable souvenir. Indeed, every day the sculpture is photographed by flocks of tourists who are keen to take it home.