Olivia De Bona and PAM at the Rencontres Urbaines de Nancy 2026
When art appears where you least expect it
Following Alëxone, Aleteia and Atlas, the collection of artistic street plaques welcomes a newcomer: Olivia De Bona, street artist, muralist and decorator.
Three designs, three plaque shapes, around thirty pieces, twenty of which are installed in public spaces.
A work inspired by Art Nouveau, delicately reimagined, blending feminine figures, botanical motifs and powerful symbols, such as the lotus, a flower that blooms in the mud.
A powerful metaphor: seeing beauty where one no longer seeks it.
This creation forms part of a partnership with PAM, led by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, as part of the RUN – Rencontres Urbaines de Nancy 2026 art project, dedicated to new forms of dialogue between art, heritage and public space.
The plaques form an urban trail entitled “Le Voyage de mes Goûts”, echoing Nancy’s iconic Art Nouveau sites, from Avenue Foch to Nancy Thermal, all the way to Saurupt Park.
To find them: follow the nautilus, a symbol of evolution and metamorphosis, cast in bronze… right down to the tarmac.
A different way of looking at the city, and perhaps, of changing your perspective.