Poincheval
embarked on his latest project in late March of imitating a
mother hen by incubating some 10 eggs with his own body heat
inside a glass vivarium at Paris' Palais de Tokyo contemporary
art museum.
At the time, he estimated it would take 21-26 days for the eggs
to hatch and the first did so on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the
museum said on Thursday nine had hatched and the chicks were on
their way to a farm.
For the endeavor, Poincheval sat on a chair, wrapped in an
insulating blanket, over a container with the eggs. He could
leave his seat for no more than 30 minutes a day for meals.
Earlier this year, the artist spent a week inside a block of
stone, while in 2014, he lived in a hollowed-out bear sculpture
for two weeks.
(Reporting By Reuters Television; additional reporting by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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