Pierre Huyghe - Untitled (Human Mask) (Paperback)

Mark Lewis

Series: Afterall Books / One Work

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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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Imprint:	Afterall Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Afterall Books / One Work
Release date:	April 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Mark Lewis (Professor)
Dimensions:	216 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-1-84638-213-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Postmodernism in art & design Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84638-213-0
Barcode:	9781846382130