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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe, Of Ideal, 2019.

Dorsoduro, 2, 30123 Venezia VE

The French artist Pierre Huyghe has been investigating the unsettling realm between reality and fiction since the 1990s. Some of his works take the form of short films, while others are presented as large-scale installations. His 2012 installation A Way in Untilled, for example, featured a white Ibizan hound named Human that roams a park in Kassel for 100 days. The artist had also installed a sculpture by Joseph Beuys, a reclining nude whose head is shrouded in a bee-covered honeycomb. “I’m not here to address or explain,” Huyghe has said. “I would say it’s about perplexity.” In this exhibition, curated by Anne Stenne, Huyghe has reimagined the gallery space, populating it with dynamic entities human and inhuman. Scheduled to coincide with the Biennale, it’s his largest exhibition ever. —Elena Clavarino

Photo courtesy of the artist, Taro Nasu, Marian Goodman Gallery and Hauser and Wirth © Kamitani Lab/Kyoto/Ola Rindal/Pierre Huyghe SIAE 2023