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Galerie Charlot presents a solo exhibition by Eduardo Kac of his transgenic work GFP Bunny, created by the artist in 2000.

The work GFP Bunny includes the creation of a fluorescent rabbit (Alba), the public dialogue generated by this project and the social integration of the rabbit. GFP is the abbreviation for «Green Fluorescent Protein». «Alba» was an albino rabbit. She was created with a synthetic mutation of the original wild-type green fluorescent gene found in the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria. Since Alba did not have skin pigment, under normal environmental conditions she was completely …