Artist Pierre Huyghe
Ola Rindal
A century ago, when quantum mechanics was developed, physicists felt like they were peering into an abyss: everything they thought was real wasn’t. Today we easily talk about collapsing clouds of probability and ghostly action at a distance.
Liminals by artist Pierre Huyghe (pictured) reminds us how gut-wrenching thoughts remain. Located in Halle am Berghain, East Berlin’s former power station and home of the famous techno club, the exhibition features a towering video projection and sound installation amidst concrete ruins that will shake you to the core.
Huyghe’s soundscape, made of atoms collapsing from quantum states, reveals fluctuations as the fundamental language of the universe. But in some interpretations, reality is not made up of quantum fields; rather, quantum states are states of our knowledge, so there is no external world. His in-between realm, where the faceless man becomes entangled in the landscape, expresses this better than any simple phrase.
Thomas Lewton
Features Editor, London
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