A French artist is preparing to be entombed for a week inside a 12-tonne limestone¹ boulder² in a modern art museum in Paris, after which he will emerge and attempt to hatch a dozen eggs by sitting on them for weeks on end.

 

在巴黎的一家现代艺术博物馆，法国行为艺术家亚伯拉罕·伯安什瓦尔要在重达12吨的石灰岩里生活一周，一周之后，他会从石头里出来，然后用身体孵化12个鸡蛋一连数周直到小鸡出壳。
 

 

"I think of it as an inner journey to find out what the world is," said Abraham Poincheval, who has hollowed out a hole in the rock just big enough for himself to fit inside.

 

Poincheval is no stranger to bizarre and hair-raising performances.

 

He once spent a fortnight inside a stuffed bear, was buried under a rock for eight days and navigated³ France's Rhone river inside a giant corked⁴ bottle.

 

He has also crossed the Alps in a barrel and last year spent a week on top of a 20-metre pole outside a Paris train station like the stylite saints of the early Christian⁵ church.

 

He also played at being a human mole⁶, and crossed France on foot in a straight line with a friend.

 

But curator Jean de Loisy, of the Palais de Tokyo museum where Poincheval's "Stone" and "Egg" performances are being held, insisted that his work should not be regarded as stunts⁷ but as a series of mystical journeys.

 

Instead they are profound meditations⁸ on "inner exploration, on modifying the self and of living in other realms beyond our own," De Loisy said.

 

The artist said he has spent months mentally and physically⁹ preparing himself for the practicalities of life inside the rock, where he will sit up with his arms outstretched.

 

Holes have been bored in the rock for air and cables for a heart monitor and emergency telephone line.

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