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French museum bedecked with 80,000 "condoms" for World Aids Day
Nov 30, 2011, 15:54 GMT
Paris - In the run-up to World Aids Day on Thursday, the Pompidou Centre in Paris was bathed in the refracted glow of 80,000 'condoms' in rainbow colours.
The iconic museum has covered the landings of its famous tubular escalator with plastic mouldings shaped like the rubber prophylactics.
'It's about taking a symbol of popular culture and presenting it in a different way,' Bryan McCormack, the Irish artist behind the installation, told dpa.
Because condoms are designed to protect people from pregnancy or infection, they tend to have negative connotations, he said.
'I wanted to make something light, positive, open,' he said. 'Because condoms are also about health, good sex, love and life.'
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