Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe's reputation in the international contemporary art scene is based on installations, films, and collaborative projects that probe our collective imagination. His works tend to generate a sense of instability by imposing unusual strategies of perception on the narrative structures through which it is constructed. They engage the observers, causing their own stock of visual images and individual memories to interact with the artificial memory of the media. The experience often underlines the rift that is produced between the real and its representation, especially in the means of communication used by the entertainment industry.
Castello di Rivoli has organized an ambitious Huyghe retrospective and this catalogue-with a special pop up insert-presents all aspects of his oeuvre, including Blance-Neige Lucie, No Ghost Just a Shell, Sleeptalking, and a new work, Float, created for the show. The catalog includes a broad selection of Huyghe's own writings as well as extracts by other contemporary artists and critics, including a major essay by Carolyn Christov-Barkargiev, and a complete
bio-bibliography.

Pierre Huyghe has exhibited widely in Europe and the U.S. He was honored with the Special Prize Award at the 2001 Venice Biennale.
carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is chief curator at the Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea; her recent publications include a monograph of William Kentridge (Skira, 2004).