„Idegenek önmagunknak”. Pierre Huyghe: Liminal (Punta della Dogana, Velence, 2024)
“Strangers to Ourselves”: Pierre Huyghe: Liminal (Punta della Dogana, Venice, 2024)

Summary/Abstract: Over the past 50 years, the French art collector François Pinault has built one of the most significant contemporary art collections in the Western world. This valuable collection encompasses more than ten thousand works of art. In Venice, two magnificent historical buildings transformed into museums host the collection’s rotating exhibitions each year. In 2022, the Palazzo Grassi was the venue for a memorable retrospective of Marlene Dumas, while the Punta della Dogana showcased a decades-spanning exhibition of the work of American artist Bruce Nauman. As part of the “Strangers Everywhere” theme of the 60th Venice Biennale’s collateral events, the Punta della Dogana serves as the grand, visionary venue for French contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition Liminal (March-November 2024). While a collateral event of the Biennale, with its inspiration, commitment, and audacity in raising the question “What is (hu)man?”, this exhibition stands out as one of the most significant offerings of this year’s Biennale. Located on a narrow, triangular strip of land jutting into the sea, the location of the imposing former customs building is a liminal space in itself. Huyghe transforms this space into a provocative, boundary-blurring experience that questions human existence and the relationship between human, animal, and machine. He is interested in the intersection of species categories, in the fiction of merging the boundaries of species, without hierarchies, inquiring into the possibility of the hybrid as a conceivable, imaginable form of existence. I am interested in the idea of alienation from oneself presented in Huyghe’s work. In his vision, we see an attempt at a possible future or present, a simulation of a speculative state of being, a vision of a passage between worlds.

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