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Pictures: Artist hatched eggs as latest bizarre project

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Poincheval sitting on the eggs like a hen.Image source, Getty Images
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French Artist sat on eggs like a hen for his latest bizarre art project. He was in this special tank in a museum in Paris using his own body heat to the eggs. It took three weeks for the chicks to hatch.

French artist Abraham Poincheval poses inside his artwork Pierre ("Stone") in Paris, France, on 22 February 2017, before entering the rock as part of his project to live inside for a weekImage source, Reuters
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Abraham Poincheval lived inside a rock for another project. He's made a name for himself by living inside things. "I say to myself, hold on, what is this object really?... Instead of distancing yourself and removing oneself from it, let's go inside and see what is really happening." Very rock and roll!

French artist Abraham Poincheval poses inside his artwork Pierre ("Stone") in Paris, France, on 22 February 2017, before entering the rock as part of his project to live inside for a weekImage source, Reuters
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The specially made rock had a cut out space inside for him to live in. He could breathe and eat soup and dried meats while he was in there.

French artist Abraham Poincheval poses on 20 September 2012 in Marseille, southern France, before starting his artistic performance 604.800 seconds.Image source, AFP
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He also spent a week in an underground hole beneath a bookshop in Marseilles in France. He also once crossed the country in a completely straight line using a compass,

French artist Abraham Poincheval climbs into a fake bear on 31 March 2014 the day before starting an artistic performance in which he will spend 13 days in the bear's skin, at the Hunting and Wildlife Museum in ParisImage source, AFP
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...spent 13 days living inside a hollowed-out bear,

French artist Abraham Poincheval stands in a giant bottle during his performance The Bottle' 30 July 2015 in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, southern FranceImage source, AFP
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and travelled up the Rhone river inside a large plastic bottle with a cork in it

French artist Abraham Poincheval during a week-long stint on top of a pole outside the Gare de Lyon in Paris on 26 September 2016Image source, AFP
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Poincheval has also spent a week on top of a 20m (65-foot) pole outside Paris's Gard du Nord train station.