Description: Pierre Huyghe : Untitled; Human Mask, Paperback by Lewis, Mark, ISBN 1846382130, ISBN-13 9781846382130, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic Untitled (Human Mask), which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry. Pierre Huyghe's 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask) combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. She's a girl! The flat, emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial glossy hair topped even with a child's bow, suggests that she, the monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But there's no music. Instead Huyghe's film evinces the terrifying possibility that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkey's recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might survive us. Untitled (Human Mask) presents a pluperfect world with extinction the endgame for a civilization that cared little for the present, dreaming only of a future that inevitably and necessarily could not include it.
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Book Title: Pierre Huyghe : Untitled (Human Mask)
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Afterall Publishing
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: History / Contemporary (1945-), Individual Artists / Monographs, General, Film & Video
Item Height: 0.4 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 10.7 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Mark Lewis
Item Width: 5.9 in
Book Series: Afterall Books / One Work Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
