Camata

Pierre Huyghe

2024
Robotics driven by machine learning, self-directed film, edited in real time by self-learning algorithms, sound, sensors
Winsing Arts Collection

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Marian Goodman Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Esther Schipper, Taro Nasu and Anna Lena Films. Photo credit © Pierre Huyghe

Camata

Pierre Huyghe

2024
Robotics driven by machine learning, self-directed film, edited in real time by self-learning algorithms, sound, sensors
Winsing Arts Collection

A set of machines seems to perform an unknown ritual, on the unburied skeleton of a young man, found in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It is the oldest and driest desert on earth, the testing ground of astronomers to study exoplanets, i.e. planets that exist beyond our solar system. The ritual performed by the machines appears all at once as an endless funeral rite, an operating theater, and the learning process and formation of a specific lifeless subjectivity.

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Artist Biography

Pierre Huyghe

Born in 1962 in Paris, France, Pierre Huyghe creates art that spans diverse media, including film, site-specific works, sculpture, and situations. His works are conceived as speculative fiction and often present themselves as continuity between a wide range of intelligent forms, biological, technological, tangible inert matter that learn, modify and evolve. Huyghe has held solo exhibitions at major international art institutions, such as the Punta della Dogana in Venice, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. He is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including the Hugo Boss Prize in 2002 and the Nasher Prize for sculptures in 2017.

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