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Venus, the exhibit that celebrates the bodies of women who are victims of violence

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Prune Nourry dans son atelier à Saint-Denis © Eléa-Jeanne Schmitter, 2024

Until March 1st, the Templon Gallery invites artist Prune Nourry to its vast space at Grenier-Saint-Lazare for an absolutely stunning exhibition. Centered around the iconic artistic figure of Venus, she offers us a human moment filled with touching poetry and sensitivity.

For years now, Prune Nourry has been using her art to constantly question the role of women in society, using the symbolism of earth materials. After Terracotta Daughters, Mater Earth, and Statues Also Breathe, she returns this time with Venus, a project where she draws inspiration from Paleolithic art to approach intimacy, focusing on a fundamental societal issue: violence against women.


Intersecting Encounters

The project Venus was born from a conversation between Prune Nourry and Ghada Hatem, a gynecologist obstetrician and founder of the Maison des femmes de Saint-Denis. This house, linked to the Saint-Denis hospital, offers a diverse welcome.disciplinary for women victims of violence. And it was during the workshops offered here that the artist was able to meet 8 women, each with different backgrounds and stories.

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body tells a story. In life size or miniature, the silhouettes reveal themselves and respond to each other, conveying a poetic message. The portraits, cast in bronze, are then covered with a layer of earth or made directly from terracotta, to establish this return to nature and to Mother Earth.

To take it further, the gallery offers us...You can also discover a series of molds from the Grand Palais Rmn, which is also based in Saint-Denis. Each one represents a divine feminine figure, displayed as is or reassembled into a hybrid artwork to trace the history of Venus through art, from prehistory to the 20th century.

To complement this fascinating exhibition, artist Prune Nourry also presents some of her Venus sculptures created as part of a decoration project for the Saint-Denis Pleyel station. 8 out of the 108 imagined women are showcased here, in an endless tribute to the feminine figure and her extraordinary strength.

Venus
Galerie Templon
28, rue du Grenier-Saint-Lazare – 3rd
Until March 1st
Free entry
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