Pierre Huyghe at the Serpentine

“I don’t want to exhibit something to someone, but rather the reverse: to exhibit someone to something.” - Pierre Huyghe

In 2018, French artist Pierre Huyghe held the solo exhibition UUmwelt at the Serpentine Gallery in London. In this exhibition, the eponymous work UUmwelt was presented on multiple LED screens, displaying images reconstructed by deep neural networks from viewers’ brain activity viewers. Participants recalled specific images, and their brain activity was captured by an fMRI scanner. These data were then used to generate new visual images, thereby exploring the relationships between humans, animals, and technology. This further highlighted Huyghe’s skill in creating environments that merge living beings, surroundings, technology, and audience behavior, emphasizing the dynamic and unpredictable nature of his works while constructing an ever-changing ecosystem.