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Crystal Cave (Sleeping)

Pierre Huyghe

2009
Photograph
66.8 x 94.4 x 3.4 cm
Winsing Arts Collection

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo © Jiayun Deng

Crystal Cave (Sleeping)

Pierre Huyghe

2009
Photograph
66.8 x 94.4 x 3.4 cm
Winsing Arts Collection

In March 2008, Pierre Huyghe journeyed to the Naica Mine in Mexico, accompanied by a mathematician, a shaman, a mineralogist, an animal trainer, and an algologist (a person who specializes in the study of or the treatment of pain). Located three hundred metres below the surface of the Earth, this spectacular natural environment was discovered in the year 2000 by miners. Known as the Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals), the once-flooded underground cavern is filled with some of the world's largest known selenite crystals, a form of transparent gypsum, some up to 11 metres long. The crystal cave existed, in itself, as in our fictions, before it presented itself to our reality. The day it was discovered, its mineral growth and its fictional existence ceased.

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Courtesy Winsing Arts Foundation Photo © ANPIS FOTO
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Exhibition view at Winsing Art Place / Courtesy Winsing Arts Foundation Photo © ANPIS FOTO
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Exhibition view at Winsing Art Place / Courtesy Winsing Arts Foundation Photo © ANPIS FOTO
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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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