Camata

Pierre Huyghe

2024
Robotics driven by machine learning, self-directed film, edited in real time by self-learning algorithms, sound, sensors
Winsing Arts Collection

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Marian Goodman Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Esther Schipper, Taro Nasu and Anna Lena Films. Photo credit © Pierre Huyghe

Camata

Pierre Huyghe

2024
Robotics driven by machine learning, self-directed film, edited in real time by self-learning algorithms, sound, sensors
Winsing Arts Collection

A group of machines performs some kind of unknown ritual on the skeleton of a young man found in the Atacama Desert of Chile. It is the oldest, driest desert in the world and a testing ground for astronomers to study exoplanets (that is, planets outside our solar system). The ritual performed by the machine reveals endless funeral rites, an operating room, and a specific lifeless subjective learning process and formation.

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Artist Biography

Pierre Huyghe

Born in Paris, France in 1962, Pierre Hugo's work spans a wide range of media, including film, limited production, sculpture and environment. His works are considered speculative fiction stories, often presented as a continuum between various forms of intelligence, including biotechnology and tangible inert matter, which are able to learn, change, and evolve. He has held solo exhibitions at international art institutions such as the Venice Customs Museum of Modern Art, the Serpent Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pompidou Art Center in Paris, and the Tate Gallery in London. Hugo has received numerous awards and honors, including the Hugo Boss Prize in 2002 and 2017 and the Nasher Sculpture Award.

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