Variants Pierre Huyghe
June 12, 2022
Kistefos Museum

Variants Pierre Huyghe

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Pierre Huyghe, Variants, 2021–ongoing Scanned forest, real-time simulation, generative mutations and sounds, intelligent camera, environmental sensors, animals, plants, micro-organisms and materialized mutations: synthetic and biological material aggregate. Exhibition view: Variants, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, 2022 Courtesy the artist; Hauser and Wirth, London Photo © Ola Rindal © Pierre Huyghe

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Pierre Huyghe, Variants, a new site-specific work will be unveiled at Kistefos from June 12, 2022. Variants is a multipolar entity that perceives, generates and modifies. It is simultaneously an island and what that island could be in an alternate reality. The island has been scanned to become the environment of a live simulation. The two milieux, physical and digital, are permeable. A fictional narrative gives a set of rules and prompts, played out by...
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Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, France. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris. The artist lives and works in Santiago, Chile. Huyghe was a recipient...