This work was created after the fire of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris in 2019. The discourse on the reconstruction of Notre-Dame raises critical questions: who is allowed to redesign the architecture and heritage of public space? Which elements should be kept and what should be let go? How do cities deal with touristic, historical places that are iconic? Lola Dael's Notre-Dames have become sandcastles, they threaten to unravel, fall apart at any moment. Fixed and iconic architecture, literally and figuratively, seems to become elusive and slip through our hands like grains of sand.
