A heart

When you approach "Porte de Clignancourt", where you can find “La Recyclerie” – see my preceding post – you will see a great rotating red heart. It’s actually a rotating sculpture by Joana Vasconcelos, a Portuguese artist, born in Paris... 

... who has won a great reputation for spectacular works – she has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Versailles castle and gardens, the Bilbao Guggenheim… - see some pictures stolen on the net.

This is part of the City of Paris’ commendable wish to decorate along the tram line (see previous posts, here, here and here). Unfortunately, as this heart, when mechanics are involved, artwork seems to be very temporary. Very few of the installations – most of them mechanical – along the first part of the tram line, from 2007, are still working and many have just disappeared.