Guillaume pilet biography sample
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SURROGATE MOTHERS
OPENING: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 6 – 8 PM
An interview between Tiphanie Blanc and Yann Chateigné with Guillaume Pilet
Tiphanie Blanc and Yann Chateigné: You have referenced key figures in primatology in a number of projects before. What sets this work and research apart is your personal pantheon, which now has a number of new entries. What role do Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, Harry Harlow and their apes play in your exhibition at Rotwand?
Guillaume Pilet: Harry Harlow is everywhere, I even reference him in the title. Surrogate Mothers is a concept I borrowed from a series of experiments that the behavioural scientist carried out with baby monkeys. Through these experiments he demonstrated the importance of love – something previously ignored by science – for learning processes and the development of cognitive thinking. This is also a central theme in Learning From Aping, which is the name of my own research into apes which I started a year ago.
I invert the concept of the surrogate mother, shifting the focus to the women scientists who dedicated their lives to studying apes. Dian Fossey gave her life and even died for the mountain gorillas when she was murdered