Pierre Huyghe Mind's Eye (F), 2021

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 media work UUmwelt, a real-time generated sequence of morphing images that is generated by a specific scanner and a computer. The sequence of images and the shapes that it generates are based on registered brain activity of visual recognition, or 'mental images.' In other words, images of the UUmwelt multimedia installation are a computer translation of how a specific, familiar image is perceived by the neuronal network of a human brain. Each unique work in the series Mind’s Eye materializes such generated images into a three-dimensional form, still retaining the aspect of familiarity with the original perceived image.