Vénus - Ongoing

In 2026 Prune Nourry's first public commission, Les Vénus dionysiennes, will be unveiled at the new Saint-Denis-Pleyel metro station – designed by Kengo Kuma – as part of the Grand Paris Express project. Forming a vertical museum in the atrium on either side of the escalators, this collection of 108 1.7-metre sculptures references history's earliest representations of women: the Palaeolithic Gravettian Venuses from Willendorf, Grimaldi, Lespugue and elsewhere.

Eight models sculpted by the artist are combined with 14 distinctive clay "skins" and pigments, making each figure unique in this expression of the female body in all its diversity of shapes and colours.