Born in 1997 in Monterrey, lives and works in Los Angeles.

270 × 100 × 100 cm each

Steel, paint

With statues of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain, and a name borrowed from a former French colony, the jardin de la Nouvelle-France commemorates a complex legacy of French colonization. Along one of the park’s pathways, two tall, narrow bronze rods by Boz Deseo Garden disrupt that colonial narrative by telling a story it leaves out. The sculptures are modelled on a real lightning rod that washed ashore from the Bristol Channel—once a major route in the transatlantic slave trade, and where a sunken slave ship was found in the 1990s. The work continues the artist’s research into how the legacy of slavery shapes systems of representation, memory, and public space.

October 20 - 25. Free access.

Students from the École du Louvre are available every day from October 20 to 25, 2pm to 5:30pm, to provide visitors with information.