Prune Nourry is a French multidisciplinary artist specializing in sculpture but also exploring a multitude of media through installations that include photography, film and performance. The Vénus project explores the role of women in society through the symbolism of clay and was born from the meeting with Ghada Hatem, a gynecologist and obstetrician who founded a support center for women victims of violence, the Maison des Femmes in Saint-Denis. The artist met eight women in the center's workshops who agreed to pose nude for her, courageously overcoming social taboos linked to their culture or personal inhibitions rooted in a traumatic past. Prune Nourry asked the models to assume the same poses, static and standing, as the Venus statuettes of the past.