HUMAN+ NATURAL HISTORY OF ENIGMA Eduardo Kac

Part of the HUMAN exhibition at Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, supported by Wellcome Trust, Trinity School of Medicine and the Trinity Long Room Hub. The central work in the Natural History of the Enigma is a ’plantimal’, a new life form created by Eduardo Kac that he calls Edunia, a geneticallyengineered flower that is a hybrid of the artist and Petunia. The Edunia expresses Kac’s DNA exclusively in its red veins. The new flower was invented by and produced by the artist through molecular biology. It is not found in nature.