Pierre Huyghe

Honestly speaking, my impression of Pierre Huyghe's artwork was a lot more interesting than I had anticipated. Typically, I feel as though I have the conception that an artist spends their career focusing on one form of art, maybe two at the most, rather than multiple. That was the first thing I had in mind that Pierre challenged. The way I see it, Pierre is an artist who likes to turn abstract concepts into concrete visuals. The revolving door was perhaps my favorite example of this. It was simply a door, but it brought to life a metaphor. It goes to show that you get to choose what side you are on. Are you choosing to think you are out of it and free, or that you are trapped inside? Regardless of what the scenario you're talking about is in that situation. 

Pierre dabbles in almost every art form you can imagine. In this video, some of which he mentioned were music, theater, and film. Pierre impressed me early on in the video when he discussed turning an island into a musical score. At first, this sounded almost funny to me, but nothing short of intriguing. Then, Pierre talks about how he turns an irony, or rather a parable, into a play. Not only that, but I thought his choice of pursuing this play was very specific as he enacted it using puppets rather than humans. An odd choice, but nonetheless one that I am curious about learning more about.

The last form of art Pierre speaks about is film. I couldn't help but notice that he did not really explicitly mention that it was a form of filmography. His mentioning of a script was maybe the closest I could get to him talking about it like a movie, and maybe he chose to do so so as not to accidentally give the impression of it being the conventional film. He spoke about his disinterest in filming a reality, but rather he is passionate about producing one to film. His authenticity is like none I've seen before.