"I am interested in the vital aspect of the image, in the way in which an idea, an artifact, a language can flow into the contingent, biological, mineral, physical reality. It's about exposing someone to something, rather than something to someone."
The photographs, videos, and installations of Pierre Huyghe question the conditions of representation of reality and the shifts in meaning that they cause. By borrowing the aesthetics of the undervalued day-to-day, the artist points to the limits of our knowledge, which is restrictively predicated on an interpretation of the world. Somewhere between reality and fiction, his videos exist as imprints of the cinematographic universe (reboot, remake, etc.) and lead the viewer to question his perception of the surrounding world and his relationship with collective memory. For Huyghe, the notion of a living work offers a new interpretation of artistic creation, because it implies an individual biological rhythm which does not comply with the rules of the museum or those of the public.