Tag Archives: Pierre Huyghe
Did Eos live within a system that reduced her world? – Claudia La Rocco In Cicero’s reworking on the Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic, he presents the fictional dream of Scipio Aemilianus, in which his illustrious (adoptive) grandfather Scipio Africanus explains how the soul escapes the prison of the body to live the true […]
Yesterday at the Guggenheim Bilbao I saw Pierre Huyghe’s remarkable 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask). It stars the monkey Fuku-chan (who came to fame in a YouTube video that depicts her working as a waitress north of Toyko) dressed in a mask and wig waiting impatiently in an abandoned restaurant. Set and filmed in 2011, […]
The place is enclosed. Elements and spaces from different times in history lie next to each other with no chronological order or sign of origin. What is present are either physical adaptations of fictional and factual documents or existing things….The set of operations that occurs between them has no script. There are antagonisms, associations, hospitality […]