Street art · Paris
Photo: Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mur des je t'aime
By Frédéric Baron, Claire Kito
Tucked in a Montmartre square, a cobalt-blue tiled wall stammers "I love you" in over 300 languages, scrawled like handwritten letters mid-confession. Frédéric Baron and Claire Kito's 2000 installation turns a whole neighborhood corner into a global
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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