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Prune Nourry is a multidisciplinary French artist,〔Kourlas, Gia ("Art at the Food Cart and in the Park" ), ''The New York Times'', New York, September 20, 2011.〕 who attended the Ecole Boulle in Paris, specializing in wood sculpture.〔Tripathi, Shailaja ("The Cow Girl" ), ''The Hindu'', September 25, 2010.〕 She draws inspiration from the themes that surround anthropology and bioethics. Nourry currently works at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, NY. Trained as a sculptor, she now also explores a multitude of mediums such as photography and film, and attempts to transcend their 2 dimensionality through re-projection and creating sculptural pieces the audience can interact with. Offering an accessible, and participatory art experience to viewers is essential for Nourry. ==Projects== Emulating the style and ancient techniques of the Chinese Terracotta Warriors, in her last project Prune collaborates with local Xi’an artisans specialized in the copies of the terracotta soldiers to create the Terracotta Daughters project. Prune sculpted 8 life-size Terracotta Daughters modeled after 8 Chinese orphan girls. Once her 8 original sculptures completed and molded, Prune gives the craftsmen a table of 108 combinations. Based on this document, they use the molds interchangeably to create an army of 108 life-size Terracotta Daughters. Then, Prune invites one of the artisans, Xian Feng, to interpret her work and to become an artist himself. Xian Feng personalizes individually each face to make each Terracotta Daughter unique, as it was done with the ancient soldiers, and he signs them. The army is shown around the world in Shanghai, Paris, Zurich, NYC and Mexico City before it is buried until 2030, creating a contemporary archeological site. In the continuation of her Holy Daughters project in India, Prune reflects upon gender preference in China and infiltrates the local culture through the familiar symbol of the Terracotta Soldiers, by creating this army of 116 life-size Terracotta Daughters. Earlier, her project took her to India where she infiltrated the local culture by creating her own hybrid deity between 2009 and 2011, inviting viewers to question gender imbalance at the heart of today’s news. Nourry created resin sculptures that were hybrids of the Indian "Holy Cow" and young girls and placed them in the streets of middle-class neighborhoods in Delhi.〔Tripathi, Shailaja ("The Cow Girl" ), ''The Hindu'', September 25, 2010.〕 One critic noted that, "The young artist () walks the line between art and activism with this project, which probes the issue of sex selective abortion in India." 〔Genestar, Edouard ("Prune, Une Sacrée Artiste" ), ''Polka Magazine'', France, March 2011.〕 A first glimpse of the project was offered to the public in the Holy Daughters exhibition in Paris in 2011〔Tripathi, Shailaja ("The Cow Girl" ), ''The Hindu'', September 25, 2010.〕 In the summer of 2011, her film ''Holy Daughters'', which documented the performance in Delhi, was screened at the Centre Pompidou as part of the exhibition, ''Images de L'Inde''.〔Centre Pompidou, ("Images de L'Inde" )〕 "Holy Daughters" has since been seen in NY in 2012, as well as in Berlin and Geneva in 2013. Life size bronze sculptures mixing the Indian sacred cow and adolescent girl features were immersed among performance photographs applied to x-ray light-boxes, videos projected on milk, and ephemeral latex glove chandelier installations. The 2010 In Vitro series offers another step in the artist’s medium exploration, and questions the pre-implantation diagnosis: the pre-selection of human embryos. Vintage glass chemistry lab tubes are hung on the wall, imitating body organs from which light is diffused. Upon arriving in NY in 2011, Nourry took interest in the American sperm-bank industry and invited men to symbolically donate their sperm on a website. Associating each donor trait to an ingredient, she then offered the genetic cocktail to passersby in a traditional food cart on Fifth Avenue, thus bringing us to question some of the established practices. This performance "playfully investigates the commoditization of the creation of life." 〔Marcum, Anna ("A Visit to the Sperm Bar" ), ''The Eye'', ''Columbia Spectator'', New York, October 6, 2011.〕 ''The Spermbar'', was included in French Institute Alliance Française's 2011 ''Crossing the Line'' festival in New York City.〔Marcum, Anna ("A Visit to the Sperm Bar" ), ''The Eye'', ''Columbia Spectator'', New York, October 6, 2011.〕 In 2009, the artist began her Procreative Dinners (ephemeral performances crossing art, science and gastronomy), bringing together a star chef and a scientist to reflect on the idea of children “à la carte” – first tasted in Paris and Geneva, and soon presented in New York.〔Rolin, Gaelle ("Les filles sacrées de prune Nourry" ), Madame Figaro, France, 2011.〕 Nourry’s Bébés Domestiques (Pet Babies) were born in 2006 to question the anthropomorphism of pets through “genetic manipulation.” During her Adoption Day events in Paris, London, Brussels, and New York, the human-animal hybrid silicone sculptures set to the streets in search of adoptive parents. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prune Nourry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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