Series “And Me…”

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Series of large-format drawings (ranging from 75 × 70 cm to 131 × 101 cm), executed in pencil and graphite on paper.

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These drawings, with their resolutely scientific approach, follow the listening of a radio program in which researchers expressed their desire to genetically recreate dinosaurs. They therefore turned their attention to their descendants, birds, in order to draw from their genetic heritage the genes that could be reactivated and thus re-form what characterized oviparous animals: a tail, a claw, and teeth. This is how they succeeded, for example, in adding a caudal vertebra to chicks.

Thierry Farcy draws fragments from human and animal anatomy, or invents them, and combines them, offering us a new composition between reality and fiction. The veracity, accuracy, and precision of the line — recalling ancient anatomical studies — unsettle our reading. Are these body parts, gathered into a kind of cabinet of curiosities, inventions, science fiction, or meticulously catalogued deformities?