Author: Huyghe, Pierre'Liminal' is an opportunity to retrace the career of Pierre Huyghe, an artist perpetually fascinated with skimming the surfaces of other worlds, particularly non-human worlds. This large, richly illustrated volume, features specially commissioned photographs of new works. An index of the featured works, spanning 1993 to the present, make this book the most complete Huyghe publication to date.Huyghe’s Venice solo exhibition in the spring of 2024 incorporated all facets of his multidisciplinary practice to explore liminal spaces: areas of emotional, physical and spiritual transition. Within the darkened, hushed rooms of the Punta della Dogana, soundtracked only by bubbling water and the shuffling of visitor’s footsteps, the artist creates new, intangible encounters with every work. Video installations show an apelike creature wearing a human mask or a faceless woman feeling for craters on the moon. Elsewhere, fish float in an aquarium tank and an AI-powered system spouts steam, smoke and music from two suspended boxes.The texts by Chiara Vecchiarelli, Tristan Garcia, Tobias Rees and Patricia Reed outline the perimeter of Huyghe's intervention, which is further clarified in his dialogue with curator Anne Stenne. ISBN 9791254632055. Marsilio Arte. pb. 456 pages. 600 colour ills. 28.6 x 21 cm.reprinting
