Travel Monitor Lizard: The XXL Odyssey

The Varan arrives in Calais: An XXL urban spectacle

Emerging from the bowels of the earth, the Dragon of Calais has taken root in the city of lace. Every day, it emits a powerful magnetic wave, a vibrant call to the animals whose DNA it carries: eagles, carp, rhinoceroses, bats, scorpions, and reptiles, including iguanas, lizards... and monitor lizards.
In the Australian deserts, the largest of the monitor lizards senses this signal. Wild, fierce, and unpredictable, it begins a journey across the world, guided by the call of the Dragon. In Calais, the meeting is being prepared. But from the depths emerges a dark force, determined to prevent this union.
Faced with this threat, The Calais Dragon and the Travel Monitor Lizard join forces. Together, they engage in a fight against evil, uniting power, instinct and animal memory.

For three days, the city becomes the scene of a mythical and spectacular confrontation. An open-air odyssey, a mirror of Calais: a border town, a world city, a place of passage and imagination.

• The Travel Monitor Lizard, agile and sleek, was designed to slip through the neighborhoods of Calais. With an expressive head and an 80cm tongue, it is capable of interacting with its environment with precision.

• The Dragon of Calais, Installed since 2019, it is the largest of the machines created by La Machine. 25 meters long, it spits fire, water, and smoke, and transports visitors along the seafront.

• The Guardian of Darkness, half-scorpion, half-human, is a disturbing chimera, capable of breathing fire and manipulating the elements. She represents an opposing force that has come to challenge the alliance of the two saurians.