At a young age, French
artist Prune Nourry is diagnosed with breast cancer. To cope with the
profound effect it has on her life, she turns her medical odyssey
into an epic artistic adventure.
Biography:
Prune
Nourry is a multi-disciplinary artist based at the
Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. She draws her inspiration
from the issues of human definition and human selection. With a
degree in wood sculpture from Ecole Boulle in Paris, Nourry explores
bioethics through sculpture as well as video, photography, and
performance. Her work focuses on how artificial procreation leads us
towards an artificial evolution of mankind and its consequences.
Nourished by in-depth research and largely influenced by
anthropology, she has created a triptych focusing on gender
preference. This triptych started in India with the projects Holy
Daughters (2009) and Holy River (2011). The third part, Terracotta Daughters, a life-size army Prune made in Xi'an,
China, travelled the world in 2014 before being buried this year as a
"contemporary archeological site".
