Created to enhance the new Perrier district in the early 1980s, this 3-metre-high sculpture retains its human proportions.
This female figure, covered in copper scales, sits on her pedestal facing the Salève, gazing pensively at the world around her. Michel Ventrone's Andromeda is a far cry from her classical representations, which depict her as an ideal of the female body awaiting her savior. Named after the princess of Greek mythology condemned to be exposed naked to the assaults of a sea monster, she is here grouped, introspective, without pathos, already thinking of what comes next. It is resolutely modern, echoing Le Perrier's project: looking to the future. Restored in 2007 and 2019, its verdant copper has regained its original flamboyant lustre.
