Pierre Huyghe

Liminals is a new commission by artist Pierre Huyghe presented by LAS Art Foundation at Halle am Berghain, which delves into uncertainty using quantum experiments. It marks the artist’s first solo presentation at a Berlin institution.

The large-scale environment at Halle am Berghain encompasses film, sound, vibration and light. Described by the artist as a “modern myth,” the film at its core follows the emergence of a faceless, human-like figure, which moves through shifting states. As the artist describes, it is “set in a realm outside time and space, where there is no beginning or end, no inside or outside, only an incessant dance of matter, in which every moment is a maybe.” We witness the figure’s attempts to exist, communicate and escape a single state of reality or consciousness. We see a dissolution of boundaries between inner and outer realms, and between living and non-living matter.