Conférences nocturnes - Deuxième vie de la Vénus de Dolni Vestonice ?

Discovered in 1925 in a village in Moravia, in the Czech Republic, the Venus of Dolní Věstonice is a female terracotta figurine crafted during the era of the mammoth hunters. For a century now, she has enjoyed an astonishing second life: having become an icon of popular culture, she has inspired literature, music, theater, film, and the visual arts. Her image appears in school textbooks, the press, and advertising, to the point of becoming a marketing tool. A national symbol, she is also associated with motherhood, fertility, beauty, and femininity. Her forms fuel sometimes contradictory representations of the female body. Yet, whether reproduced, reinterpreted, or distorted, the statuette remains shrouded in mystery.