Grande Arche de la Défense with Jurassic World Installation

29 May 2022 · Paris

La Grande Arche frames everything in its path — including, on this spring afternoon, a Jurassic World promotional installation stacked from shipping containers and T-rex graphics at its base. The arch-within-arch geometry does the heavy lifting: the hollow cube of white marble punches through a sky loaded with fast-moving cloud, while the branded containers below introduce a collision of scales that is absurd and somehow fitting. La Défense's modernist plaza has always been theatre; it just rarely features dinosaurs.