Pierre Huyghe
Artist
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Pierre Huyghe’s works often present themselves as situated networks, a continuity between a wide range of intelligent life forms (biological, technological) and matter that learn, modify and evolve. They are immersive, contingent and constantly changing environments. They are sites of possibility, excess of fiction, indeterminate and indifferent to categories and witnesses.
For several years, Pierre Huyghe’s works investigate alternatives to the Human perspective, thereby giving to the viewers the feeling that they are not always expected, in the manner of Untilled (dOCUMENTA (13), 2012) and Untitled (Human Mask) (2014).
Pierre Huyghe (born in 1962, Paris) lives and works in New York. His work is internationally known and presented in various exhibitions around the world. Huyghe has received several awards, including the Nasher Sculpture Prize (2017); Kurt Schwitters Prize (2015); Roswitha Haftmann Award (2013), the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Contemporary Artist Award (2010), the Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum (2002), the Special Award from the Jury of the Venice Biennale (2001), and a DAAD in Berlin (1999-2000). Most recently, he was appointed Artistic Director of the Okayama Art Summit 2019.
Recent exhibitions include UUmwelt, Serpentine Gallery, London (2018);The Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum, New York (2015). In 2012 -2014, a major retrospective of Huyghe’s work travelled from the Centre Pompidou (Paris) to the Ludwig Museum (Germany) and to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA). His work has also been featured in group exhibitions including After ALife Ahead, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany (2017); Tino Sehgal at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016), Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms at the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel (2012) among others.
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"Mental images can flow from one mind to another, outside the field of appearance, like a synthetic telepathic conversation. They can also be externalized from the minds of the subjects and manifest physically. It would then be possible to witness the creation of a collective imagination, as in a neural ritual. Mind's Eyes are mental images extracted from UUmwelt, artefacts of the field of the imaginary, precipitated occupying space. They are in an ambiguous continuity between visual human imagination, artificial intelligence, data and matter."
