This public bench is 2.5 times larger than the original. Integrated into the public space, it provokes interaction between the object, the landscape and the viewer. The latter can become an actor by sitting on the bench and assuming the object's functionality. Through this effort, they experience a sensation of grandeur, of repositioning, of scaling up the world around them. All the senses are activated, the landscape poeticized. The chosen scale of enlargement gives the Bench the ability to blend into this urban landscape.

The work of French artist Lilian Bourgeat draws on the collective imagination. His installations are composed of oversized elements from our everyday lives, which he transforms into another universe (garden table and armchair, supermarket cart, wheelbarrow, rubber boots, etc.).

The idea is to bring a different kind of attention to an ordinary object, in an attempt to extract and bring to light what is marvellous about it. Take this banal, everyday object, take it out of context, then focus your attention on it by enlarging it. Finally, judiciously place it back in the world from which it was extracted. This gives the object and its environment a different perspective, and ultimately enhances its reality, making it extraordinary. The spectator is often an integral part of the device, activating it. They become the revelators of the extraordinary.