{"product_id":"pierre-huyghe","title":"Pierre Huyghe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of Pierre Huyghe''s post-apocalyptic Untitled (Human Mask), which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePierre Huyghe''s 2014 film \u003ci\u003eUntitled (Human Mask)\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316475765118,"sku":"NW9781846382130","price":14.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781846382130.jpg?v=1778718870","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/pierre-huyghe","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}