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Human Mask

Exhibition: 1 Jul 2016 – 1 Dec 2016

Human Mask
Pierre Huyghe , Untitled (Human Mask), 2014 , Film, color, sound, 19’07’’ , Courtesy the artist; Hauser & Wirth, London; Esther Schipper, Berlin; Anna Lena Films, Paris.

Untitled (Human Mask), 2014, the latest video work by the acclaimed French artist Pierre Huyghe, follows a hybrid creature – between monkey and human – wandering around in a deserted restaurant near Fukushima, Japan. The enigmatic presence of this creature in a desolate environment that seems to have been ruined and abandoned by human beings is an apocalyptic vision that generates conflicting feelings of alienation and incomprehension together with sadness and compassion.