The Praise to Transgression Statue

This point of interest is available as audio on the tour: Visit Nantes, The City of the Dukes
Just a word about this friendly statue you are now looking at. It’s Philippe Ramette’s Praise to Transgression. This artist enjoys playing with logic and gravity, here it is a tribute to a different way of being. According to you, is the statue climbing up onto its pedestal to become a statue, or is it going down to escape from it? In this case, as in life, it’s all a matter of which perspective you take!

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