Les Plantamouves

“Plantamouves are wonderful plants, both soft and monumental, proliferating and geometric, and above all multicoloured! They also produce geometric fruits that children can wear to play and dance. We enjoyed imagining this extraordinary garden populated by this small dancing community, as an amusing reference to Osckar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet.

The project was born out of a dual desire: to create a museum piece that engages children’s bodies and to take advantage of the gallery’s vast space to create a large-scale sculpture. In our shows and performances, we love to create elements that modify the body, fragment it, augment it, and require the invention of a specific choreographic language. Dance, along with sculpture, is at the heart of our work, and we wanted to share that with the children. ”

Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre

Short video presentation

Travelling exhibition

Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou – Paris, on display from 15 February to 2 September 2023.

At the Pompidou / West Bund Museum – Shanghai from 27 September 2023 to 25 February 2024

Concept and production by Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre

Tutorials produced in collaboration with Soa Ratsifandrihana and Max Ricat

Textile assistant Anne Tesson

Production by LeBeau et Associés, Centre Pompidou

Administration and distribution by Clémence Huckel and Iris Cottu – Les Indépendances