Prune uses scientific tools of analysis and collective forms of art appreciation. Scientific, because she questions Bioethics and Genetics. Collective, because through happenings in the gallery and on the street, her work always involves a strong participatory dimension.
Reflections on bioethics are changing and evolving along with the practice of the artist herself.
From the chimera, a hybrid between Human and Animal, developed by Domestic Babies, the artist began a broader debate on prenatal manipulations and possible outcomes. With her happening Procreative Dinner and an upcoming exhibition in India, Holy Daughters, she has begun to investigate the myth of the «perfect child».
The 21st century marks a milestone in genetics. Scientific advances through genetic manipulation could put human beings in the place of the Creator.
Indeed, Darwin’s theory of natural selection now exists alongside a new form of genetic selection for eugenic trend. This evolution is artificial: the embryos are developed in laboratories, sorted and selected to minimize the risk of disability and disease.
In the future, mankind may not have to adapt to his environment. If current trends continue only the embryos selected for their apparently positive qualities will be considered viable.
This form of genetic selection has the potential to become eugenic form of selection.
This evolution which runs paralel to natural evolution (as Darwin understood it), is it ‘against-nature’ or, in light of new developments, must we redefine Nature itself as somewhere between classical procreation and assisted procreation ?
How to procreate going to change so that coupling in order to make a child will be considered «wild»?
And that social security will refuse assistance to any child procreated outside a test tube?
As we cross the threshold of the twenty-first century, questions about the future of human evolution begin to take shape. Where do we come from and where are we going?
Breeding season of species. Among 200 millions of spermatozoa, only a few hundred cross the uterine tube. The spermatozoon X is one of them. The ovocyte X is waiting patiently that natural selection takes place.
Prune Nourry shout out her first cry in Paris at January 30, 1985. Artist in gestation, she studied in vitro the Ecole Boulle, speciality wood sculpture.
Since 2004, her studio is a laboratory for genetics hybridization.
She procreates new species halfway between Human and Animal, allegories of the contemporary Science which leads to an artificial selection of the Human.
Conferences
2010
Musée du Quai Branly, "The Emergence of Contemporary Indian Art”, under the direction of Christine Ithurbide, a researcher in contemporary art
2009
Science Po, intervention, under the direction of Malvika Maheswari, Professor
2009
Auditorium of the Louvre, under the direction of Sonia Brunel, speaker of National Museums
2008
University of Tokyo, "How we draw the borderline Between Humans and animals-Challenging art
experiments with hybrid pet babies”, under the direction of Noriko Nijiima, sociologist
2007
Science Po, intervention, under the direction of Gerard Rodach Professor
Exhibitions
November 2009
Happening Le Dîner Procréatif at l’Espace « R », Genève, Switzerland.
June 2009
Happening Le Dîner Procréatif at the laboratory studio, Paris, France.
February 2009
Collective exhibition GIMME MORE, galerie Elaine Levy Project, Bruxelles, Belgium.
November 2008
Exhibition, KJBI Art Space, Bruxelles, Belgium.
October 2008
Conference at the University of Tokyo with the sociologist Noriko Nijiima, Tokyo, Japan.
April 2008
Exhibition and performance Adoption Day #2 at ART BRUSSELS with the galerie Elaine Levy Project, Belgium.
On this occasion, a book was published in limited edition.
Since 2007
Permanent exhibition at galerie Max Lang, New York, Etats-Unis.
October 2007
Performance Adoption Day #1 with Jaguar Shoes Gallery, Londres, England.
September 2007
Biennal of Issy, musée de la Carte à Jouer, Paris, France.
January 2007
Exhibition in situ, reconstitution of animal house , Quai de la Mégisserie, Paris, France.
Décember 2006
Collective exhibition Wooster on Spring, Soho, New York.
April 2006
Exhibition Aux Arts Citoyens, Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris, France.
November 2005
Exhibition for the book release Carnet de Rue de JR, Paris, France.
November 2004
Exhibition, galerie « M », Paris, France.
June 2004
Exhibition Toit et Moi, galerie La Loge, Paris, France.
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