Pierre Huyghe : Untitled (Human Mask) Paperback / softback
by Mark Lewis
Part of the Afterall Books / One Work series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, 32 colour plates
- Publisher:Afterall Publishing
- Publication Date:18/05/2021
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- ISBN:9781846382130
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, 32 colour plates
- Publisher:Afterall Publishing
- Publication Date:18/05/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781846382130
