Artists’Gallery, Alliance Française, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
To introduce this exhibition, I could have told you about its 312 meters height, about the 300 millions visitors that have climbed it (until 2017) or about its worldwide fame.Instead, I share with you a poem by Maurice Carème, and leave you to observe the Eiffel Tower from many non-classic points of view, hoping that this visit makes you dream.
Yes, I am a giraffe,
told me the Eiffel tower
and if my head is in the sky,
it´s only to better feed from the clouds
because they make me eternal.
but I have four well planted feet
on a curved shore of the Seine,
I do not get bored in Paris:
the women, like moths,
the men, like ants,
slide between my legs
and the craziest ones, the nimblest,
climb and descent along
my neck like hornets,
by night, I lick the stars,
and if one can see me from the distance,
it´s because very often I swallow one
without worrying too much about it.