Variants
A mutant panorama deployed on a big display, abandoned rusty wrecks, pink mutant swarms clinging to the timber, and different strange organic excrescences appearing, right here and there, at the detours of the usually flooded paths… Fascinating mise en abîme of the landscape and the encompassing nature, but above all, of the perpetual metamorphosis of the dwelling world, the half-organic, half-digital work in progress carried out in the sculpture park of the Kistefos Museum, in Norway, by Pierre Huyghe allows us to see, beyond the actual, the chances of the actual modified by artificial intelligence.
Thus, in his fascinating mutant landscape, entitled Variants, he mixes actuality and fiction with a virtuosity able to disturbing our notion. Resulting from a real symbiosis between the dwelling and the simulacrum, nature and its avatar – the shifting and changing image generated in actual time in situ – this digital panorama is deployed on a large display put in in the midst of the timber, at the finish of a path crossing considered one of these unbelievable places, situated between the land and the water of Norway, like a window opened on one other world, a world in gestation, just like the undetermined world of the goals… &
The 50th work created for the sculpture park of the unimaginable Kistefos Museum in Jevnaker (north of Oslo), Pierre Huyghe’s generative panorama stands out among the sculptures and installations of Anish Kapoor, Claes Oldenburg, Olafur Eliasson, Jeppe Hein, and Tony Cragg. Catching our glance by its incessant and interesting mutability, it seems to plunge us in one other dimension, that of the indetermination, and make us move to the other aspect of the mirror, in an alternate actuality.&
Mixing the actual and the digital in a everlasting interplay, the work, implanted under the park, in a beforehand inaccessible and sometimes flooded islet, permits us to see a landscape and its digital simulacrum subjected to mutations generated in real time, in a random approach, by an “synthetic intelligence” subjected to the stimulations of environmental sensors; the elements of the dwelling world (noises, actions, fluctuation of the water…) coming thus to alter the virtual world, earlier than this final one contaminates in its turn the actual one. Stemming from the 3D printing of the generative mutations of the digital panorama (constantly metamorphosing the scanned picture of the location), mutant types and unidentified creatures (sponge or metallic excrescences, swarms and denatured bones…) emerge on the ground or clump within the timber. 3D objects themselves promised to the alterations of time and temperature… &
A disturbing extension of the actual panorama by way of its digital avatar, of a bodily setting (mixing the dwelling and the inert) by way of its artificially modified double, by the sport of probability and the infinite metamorphoses proper to the virtual world… simulating, in situ and in vivo, the attainable variations of a dwelling world always evolving itself…&
Hybridizing this dwelling world, in turn frozen, snowy, submerged… perpetually shifting, with its digital metamorphoses reproduced in 3D to be aggregated with the pure parts, Variants implements a double “self-generation” – that of the digital by the dwelling and of the dwelling by the digital, in a everlasting flip-flop movement – all of the more disturbing as it is unpredictable. If a lot of the “mutant expansions” implanted on the location might be assimilated to artefacts, it isn't the same for the bony excrescences aggregated to the reindeer skeleton lying and decomposing on the ground, and even much less for the bees which have colonized the pink postichous swarms hanging from the branches…
When a work in progress transgressing, or slightly, annihilating, the borders of the actual and the digital, makes us see, with an consideration elevated by the subversion of the varieties, the truth corresponding to it's and such as it could possibly be…
Kristefos – Museum of Trendy Artwork
41, Jevnaker, Samsmoveien, Norway
Till October 16th
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https://www.kistefosmuseum.com/news/pierre-huyghe-is-the-artist-of-the-year-2022
Stéphanie Dulout
L’article PIERRE HUYGHE est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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