Transforming a Familiar Urban Encounter into a Temporary Landscape of Perception| Atelier JR

One of Paris' most familiar landmarks, Pont Neuf becomes a site of exploration, participation and collective urban experience. Four decades after Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped Pont Neuf in fabric, French artist JR returns to Paris' oldest bridge with La Caverne du Pont Neuf, a temporary large-scale public art installation that transforms one of the city's most recognisable urban landmarks into an immersive cave-like environment. Constructed as a vast rocky landscape stretching 120 metres across the bridge, the installation invites visitors to move through and inhabit the work. The project shifts attention from the bridge's role as infrastructure towards its potential […]