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Sans gêne (book / DVD)

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“The idea was to draw, freely and uninhibitedly, anything and everything the idea of science brought to mind. And medical imagery is always free and uninhibited, especially with respect to genitalia.
My work here at Pasteur was to propose other startling images discoursing on medicine and astrophysics, physics and telepathy or even business and genetics. The wall of the elevator, which is the support for Sans gène, made me think of the double helix of DNA. This DNA spiral also brought to mind a forest, or Foucault's pendulum, which appeared in the same century as Pasteur. I improvised drawings using the information that I had on the different elements and the research work which will be housed in this new building dedicated to emerging infections diseases.
Some of the drawings and texts are dark. Others, unlike the white boards where researchers are often limited to the blacks, reds, blues and greens of the felt markers, use the extremely fine nuances of color used at Sèvres, which give rise to unexpected subtleties. One large tableau (work and research) includes all the ingredients of my thought process and my considerations on applied and fundamental research – whether artistic or scientific. Art is sometimes applied to science, and vice-versa!
Sans gène is primarily aimed at the users of this new building — the researchers.”

Fabrice Hyber
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