Kistefos Museum (Part IV): Pierre Huyghe...

7:12 p.m.

 
12/09/22 -  The latest addition to the permanent collection of the Kistefos Museum is called Variants by French artist Pierre Huyghe (Paris, 1962). It is the 50th work on display at the Park and the most ambitious and extensive work by the artist, who recently lost Human, the star dog of his site-specific at Documenta 2012.



Variants, by Pierre Huyghe (2021 - ongoing). 
Scanned forest, real-time simulation, generative mutation and sounds, intelligent camera, environmental sensors, animals, plants, micro-organisms and materialized mutations: synthetic and biological material aggregate
 

To enter this inaccessible area of ​​the Park intervened by Huyghe, a series of conditions are required, such as, for example, the type of footwear that must be used, the prohibition of access with minors, not leaving the indicated places, etc. With these warnings, which we promise the facilitator of the space to strictly comply with, we access the small island occupied by Variants through a wooden platform. After a few meters the platform disappears and we are alone on a barely marked path, looking for signs of the artist's intervention and also leaving behind small changes (hackings, as Huyghe explained) in this ecosystem, which will be reflected in subsequent years. Suddenly, we begin to recognize the interventions: animal bones, a kind of honeycomb (synthetic element) and intentionally hidden little cameras (more synthetic elements).

 

Variants, by Pierre Huyghe 
 
After this tour, which can take about 10 minutes, we reach a point near the river where we are greeted by a huge screen that records the movements, almost imperceptible to us, of this natural environment
 

Variants, by Pierre Huyghe 
 
The experience goes beyond what is expected. The almost silent intervention of the artist in the tour becomes dramatic with this screen of more than 5 meters wide. The primitive natural environment now distorted, in which several intelligences intersect (the human, the technological and the animal), will become a second "milieu" that we do not know at the present time. Will this intervention by Huyghe be accepted by the inhabitants, both plant and animal, of this islet? To what extent will the corruption caused in the ecosystem allow them to survive? We will see it in the next few years if the work survives.

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