Outgoing
Mothership 1
Decorative Exhibition
Mothership 2

Mothership

Decré

Prune Nourry's towering 17-meter sculpture looms over Place Graslin like a creature from another world. Inverted boat hulls form a hybrid skeleton that's part human, part animal, part ship: a haunting tribute to Nantes' port history and a meditation on where we come from.

Striking public sculpture
17-meter metal artwork
Nantes port history
Hybrid human-animal form

Tips

🏗️mix of temazcal, Lascaux caves, 1960s art influences
🦴walk around to catch the changing silhouette
📸best light at golden hour against the theatre

Mothership

Pl. Graslin, 44000 Nantes, France