Heritage of Lille. Who represents this statue of a young girl who welcomes you to Fives?

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It is part of the landscape of Lille (North). It is both a meeting place, an ideal landmark for people who need to meet, but also a essential figure of the neighborhoodwhich stands on the place Madeleine Caulier. But who is this young girl, embodied by this great statues who welcomes you at the exit of the Fives metro entrance ? Answer.

“The Lady of Fives”

This statue dating from 2007 has a very simple name: “ The Lady of Fives“. It is a work by Scottish artist Kenny Hunter, who honored a commission from the city. The particularity of this artist from Glasgow is that “he places his work in the history and life of the places for which he creates a work”, describes the City of Lille.

For the Capital of Flanders, he created a bronze sculpture rich in meaning. We see a young girl with a modern look, “anchored in our times. She adopts a pose sketching a dance gesture, in reference to the tradition of balls and taverns in the neighborhood,” specifies the municipality.

We can see that she is carrying a backpack containing a locomotive, in homage to the glorious past of the Fives-Cail metallurgical factory.

If you approach closely, you will be able to see that, under its sole is represented a map of the world, “recalling the global industrial influence of Fives, where Pierre Degeyter composed the music of L'Internationale. »

A representation that fits perfectly with this neighborhood full of life, which is perpetually renewing itself. While taking care to preserve its part of memory, so that its history does not fall into oblivion.

When to give him a first name, we leave you to this fantasy…

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