Wall of Love, Love-themed mural in Montmartre, France
Le Mur des Je t'aime is a painted wall in the 18th arrondissement that shows declarations in more than 200 languages. The dark surface is made of enameled lava stone tiles where words appear side by side in many different writing systems, covering roughly 430 square feet.
Artist Frédéric Baron collected declarations from around the globe during the late 1990s, writing them on scraps of paper. His partner Claire Kito helped transfer those texts onto ceramic tiles until the installation opened in 2000 in a small park in Montmartre.
This piece captures how people around the world voice the same feeling in scripts and sounds that often carry little resemblance to one another. Visitors see familiar phrases beside words written in distant or disappearing languages, which gives the place a sense of shared experience across communities.
The piece stands in the small square Jehan-Rictus, a quiet park near the Abbesses metro station. Visitors can view the inscriptions at any time without an entry fee and easily combine the stop with a walk along the narrow streets nearby.
Red splatters scattered across the tiles form fragments that assemble in your mind into a whole heart. This design invites viewers to piece together the shape themselves rather than finding a finished outline.
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