Liminal

10:47 p.m.

French artist Pierre Huyghe (1962) presented a retrospective of his works from the last 10 years, all belonging to the Pinault Collection, plus some new creations at the Venetian museum Punta Della Dogana.

As usual, Huyghe questions the relationship between humans and non-humans and the modifications that can be made to the coexistence between species. Huyghe is a creator of ecosystems from whom we can learn about hybridizations and possible changes. This is what happens in the exhibition, as in all the previous ones we visited by this artist: creating an environment conducive to coexistence, without hierarchy or prior determination. So, everything becomes unpredictable as the duration of the exhibition goes by.

The variable in this exhibition is the presence of non-humans or intangibles. This is where we, the visitors, interact with this entity that affects our perception of what we know and what is comfortable for us: a new human-inhuman reality. But there is more, that which is familiar to us but modified: like the lava rock formed from magma exposed to the air. In short, the real and the unreal go hand in hand, like the disturbing room where we submerge ourselves in a strange aquarium and where nothing human survives.