Les Industries perdues

Richard Purdy, François Hébert, design
Jean Lebel, assistant
The Inversion of the World
(L'inversion du monde), 1989

Marble, concrete, brass, mirror, others
Diameter 4,8m

The Inversion of the World, by Les industries perdues

Location:
Cirque Éloize
417, rue Berri, at rue Notre-Dame

Borough of Ville-Marie, Montreal
Metro Champ-de-Mars

The Inversion of the World, floor mosaic The Inversion of the World, detail of the globe

The Inversion of the World, detailThis intriguing work, the first collaboration of Les industries perdues, is situated in a rotunda. The floor mosaic pictures a map of the world in which the oceans have become continents and vice versa, complete with names such as Atlantica, Pacifica, and Île Méditéranée. The floor mosaic is "superimposed" onto the hanging globe by its lower half, a mirrored hemisphere.