Pierre Huyghe

Born 1962 Paris, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France, and New York (NY), United States.

«Pierre Huyghe described his 2006 retrospective Celebration Park, in Paris and London venues, as "an exhibition of exhibitions, and an exhibition about another exhibition to come. Huyghe has been experimenting with exhibition formats since his art school days. Using the exhibition as a multi-faceted medium, he pushed and stretches display paradigms and temporalities, rendering our overview of his artistic production fluid, permeable and malleable rather than static and linear. In Celebration Park, early works, like the floor-plan of Death Star Interior (1997) or Silence Score (1997), a rendition for flute of John Cage's "silent piece", where replaced by repudiating white neon disclaimers that stretched across the walls (I Do Not Tate Modern or the Death Star, 2006; I Do Not Own 4'33", 2006), functioning like traces or memories of these past works. Huyghe's retrospective glance into his own body of work mixed fact and fiction to dramatic effect, much like his film A Journey That Wasn't (2005), which documents an Antarctic voyage to an uncharted island to seek out an albino penguin, combining footage from the trip with that of ice-bound musical he staged in New Tork's Central Park. A master at coupling real and imaginary journeys through spaces and times. Huyghe continues to probe our capacity to travel along with him in his recent forays into theatre-based works (A Forest of Lines, 2008, which he installed with 1000 trees, swirling fog and a single singer in the Sydney Opera House). He works on temporal protocols with regard to a context, creating situations that question the possibilities inherent in reality we trust to inhabit."» Vivian Rehberg