Now based in Penmarch, Brittany, real-life and stage couple Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre have been mixing methods, materials and ideas to create incredible visual, stage and performance art for the past thirty years. In this clever and offbeat, poetic and fun world full of inanimate and moving creatures and sculptural creations that make their way into real life, the two artists transfer the issues and constraints of modern art into wonderful awe-inspiring moments of joy and sharing. This new production blending visual and performance art, reinvents six life-size Palaeolithic Venuses made of glossy and ostentatious materials already used in La Parade Moderne.

Carried on six palanquins, behind six embroidered banners bearing their images, the six marvellous Venuses, arriving from a long journey through the ages, will be paraded in procession, like secular relics, in the manner of a Breton pardon, along with six choirs singing a libretto composed by sound poet Anne-James Chaton, with music by Corinne Ernoux. After a week on exhibition at the Champs Libres, they will make their way to the Parliament of Brittany, with percussion and sung declamatory pieces, somewhere between protest anthems and tribal chants, creating new magical and poetic experiences combining modern art, performance and public space at the masterful hands of Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre.