The statue was placed in March 2024 and should be displayed for two months.
Daniel Hourdé’s work is a metal tree whose leaves are books (The Little Prince, Hamlet and others).
The work comes to express the freedom of expression symbolized by literature and books.
The statue was photographed on the same day
Click for a larger image Click for a larger image In the next picture, part of the statue is enlarged, so that the books themselves can be seen
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
Danul Hourdé Signature
The Tree of a Thousand Voices, 2024
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The Tree of a Thousand Voices is a metaphor for freedom of expression since it is made up of a quantity of accelerated books whose steel leaves shimmer and tremble. Their quivering evokes the fragility of ideas in the face of dogmatism. The leaves are renewed each year, like the pages fly away, like ideas travel, messengers of enchanting tomorrows.
This hope promised by the shimmering, the imbalances and the caducity betrayed by the mirror are recurring themes in Daniel Hourdé’s work.
Writing being the sesame of freedom, writing resists adversity like the tree.
The entire tree, through its deformations, reveals its capacity for resistance, adaptation and resilience. It bends, twists but does not break, facing the wind of intolerance.
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