Dive summary: 

• As a part of an art festival in Angers, France, two giant slugs made from more than 40,000 colored plastic bags can be seen slowly racing around the city heading towards a church in the city center.
• Dutch artist, Florentijn Hofman, said in an email to the Huffington Post, “the work… gives a new perspective on the use of plastic bags in daily life and also reminds one of the loads of plastic litter in the world that slowly suffocates our planet.”
• Hofman has a history of making larger than life art including installations of giant stuffed animals, a series of washed up grand pianos and a massive rubber duck that floated around the world.

From the article: 

For the Accroche-Coeurs performing arts festival in Angers, France, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has created two enormous slugs 'racing' towards a local church. The slugs, which are made out of 40,000 colored plastic bags fastened to steel frames, evoke a multitude of metaphors and meanings. In an email to The Huffington Post, Hofman described the sculptures as echoing "death, faith, belief as well as the suffocating role that religion takes in society." (We thought the same thing, didn't we?) ...