Montreal, August 20th 2005

Exhibition of Jacques Deshaies' paintings, Canadian artist from Montreal,
September 16 - October 16, 2005
Museum Gustavianum, Akademigatan 3, Uppsala, Sweden
Opening September 16 2005, 14:00

Welcome to Jacques Deshaies's Transgenic Feast.

For thousands of years the relationship of Humans to other Species was Domestication or the art of making other Species look like us. Now with Xenotransplantation and Transgenisation comes the Humanisation of Species. Will inevitably follow Human gene inserted into the genome of Animal Species. We will eat it. This is Cannibalisation.

Bon Appétit !

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Entrée
43 paintings of Sushis - Representation of Human Body Parts laying on representation of Sushis.
Acrylic on paper - Dimensions: 1,2m x 2,4m each.

Main Course
17 paintings telling 17 different stories on the hot and controversial subject of transgenic food.
Acrylic on paper - Dimensions: 1,2m x 2,4m each.

Dessert
1 DNA Double Helix Sculpture - 250 Chopsticks - Dimension: 50 m x 0,3 m.

Drinks
Transgenic Milk - Transgenic Wine - Transgenic Vodka

The Transgenic FEAST project (2005...
Paintings by Jacques Deshaies

Project
The proposed art is painting. They are conceptual, philosophical paintings dedicated to rigor (of truth as opposed to rhetoric and sophistry) and clarity of thought on the subject of transgenic food. It is by its own nature, food, a Humanity's collective project. It has no agenda, no symbol, no message. It is a work of art.

Thank you
Jacques Deshaies

With support of the Canadian Embassy, Stockholm.