If you walk through Statue Square in the second half of May, you will see an extraordinary sight: a five-metre-high resin sculpture of an elephant balancing on the back of a man dressed in pyjamas.
The elephant - which is currently at a rather large studio in Guangzhou, receiving its finishing touches of grey paint - is 1.3 times life-size, and about the height of a two-storey building.
"It started with a dream," says 31-year-old French artist Fabien Merelle. It happened at the time he and his partner were thinking of getting married but she was Jewish and he Catholic and the pressure of their families' expectations felt unbearable.
He painted his surreal dream in his usual tiny, exquisite monochrome watercolours and called it Pentateuque. The name is a reference to the first five books in the Bible, "which both Jews and Christians have in common, so it should be easy to find a balance, although it is not always so easy".