Imitating Men to Better Unmask them. Pierre Huyghe's Environmental Project
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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2019.10.2.2943Keywords:
contemporary art, animal, human, figuration, ecosystemAbstract
In the work of Pierre Huyghe, the animal presence, without questioning the human presence, can help to define what makes "the human of the man". This is one of the ambitions of Human Mask (2014), his movie featuring a monkey wearing an anthropomorphic mask. The artist seeks once again to create an ecosystem in which the animal evolves, its intervention having the effect of producing a form of reincarnation of the human body, and the reinvestment of its environment. Thanks to this unwilling actor, Huyghe revisits and even foils the work of the Man and, consequently, his representations of the world.
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