Auctus animalis, the augmented animal: an initiatory fable about the metamorphosis of hybrid species, a poetic inquiry into the transformation of living things. Standing at the crossing of speculative biology and surrealism, Vincent Fournier and Sébastien Gaxie's project is a startling futuristic bestiary pairing history with anticipation, memory with science fiction, and asking what new relationships with nature our world to come might hold.