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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
