Pierre Huyghe Mind's Eye (M), 2022

Pierre Huyghe's Mind’s Eye belongs to a series of unique three-dimensional works composed of organic and inorganic materials.

The specific shapes of the Mind’s Eye works bring up immediate associations with natural forms of general familiarity: an animal, a vegetable, an organ. The shapes originate in Huyghe’s project UUmwelt. A set of private ideas and memories were given as images or descriptions to be imagined by a subject. As the person imagined these components, the brain activity was captured by a scanner (a so-called functional MRI, as it visualizes not just the organ but its function). By learning to recognize and read the signals, a computer then reconstructed ‘mental images’ from brain activity. In other words, the computer translates the information generated by a human subject's brain activity into images, extrapolating from what it has learned.