Engineered Species

Vincent Fournier Engineered species photography art time magazine

TREEHOPPER [Curculionidae botulus] Pollutant-sensitive insect

French artist Vincent Fournier is a futurist. His photography explores otherworldly environments, touched by the hand of man. Machinery, robots and the seemingly limitless development of science and technology are depicted in a sort of visual science fiction, framed in an idealised state of illusory, mechanical utopia. Robots and NASA space stations and goverment astronomic centres – including the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah and the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile – have all the been the subjects of his past work.

In a new direction for the artist – but not entirely a diversion – Fournier turns to animals, reimagined in a hyper state of survival. Taking taxidermy samples, each specimen was accessed by an animal geneticist to observe the processes of evolution each species had developed. From there, Fournier imagined the future of their evolutionary development, transforming each into super animal beings – a pangolin resistant to climate change, a drought- and frost-resistant Ibis, an intelligent rabbit, edible orchids and a pollutant-sensitive treehopper insect.

Vincent Fournier Scarab

BEETLE [Oryctes transmissionus] Insect adapted to continuous tracking

Vincent Fournier pois de senteur real flower jewellery engineered species

SWEET PEA [Lathyrus gemmae] Real Flower Jewellery

Vincent Fournier pangolin climate change engineered species

PANGOLIN [Pholidota supraclimatis] Climate change-tolerant mammal

Vincent Fournier edible flower orchid engineered species

FLOWER [Orchis musa] Edible flower

Vincent Fournier lapin intelligent rabbit engineered species

RABBIT HIGHLY [Leporidae cognitiva] Very intelligent rabbit.

Vincent Fournier drought- and frost- resistant bird ibis engineered species

IBIS [Passeridae temperatio] Drought- and frost-resistant bird

Vincent Fournier engineered species weevil eupholus

WEEVIL [Entimus saliris] High adaptation for jumping insect

Vincent Fournier engineered species crocodile crocco

CROCODILE [Crocodylae hypersexualis] Reptile with new reproductive strategy

vincent fournier engineered species dragonfly

DRAGONFLY [Chloromgonfus detectis] Volatile inorganic-sensitive animal

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