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the project
The Grand Paris Express includes 68 new stations and as many artworks, each created by an artist and an architect working in tandem.
For the new Saint-Denis Pleyel station, Prune Nourry is creating a work to be installed during 2027 in the atrium designed by Kengo Kuma. Les Vénus dionysiennes is a set of 108 sculptures inspired by the earliest depictions of women in the Palaeolithic period. The 108 Venuses will stand 1.70 m tall and be clad in a skin of earths in different colours.
PAAR designed a discreet hanging system for the sculptures that preserves the station's interior cladding.
- artist
- Prune Nourry
- architect
- Kengo Kuma
- client
- Société des Grands Projets
- artistic coordination
- Centquatre Paris, José-Manuel Gonçalves
- design and production
- Agence Eva Albarran
- location
- New Saint-Denis Pleyel station
- year
- 2027
- PAAR's role
- feasibility, design, structural engineering