Pierre Huyghe : Working Hypothesis Lecture Series December 9, 2003

Eyebeam's Moving Image Division will present artist Pierre Huyghe as part of its Working Hypothesis lecture series. Hughye will discuss his recent work Streamside Day Follies now on view at Dia:Chelsea. Huyghe's art explores the convergence of reality and fiction, memory and history, often incorporating film, video, sound, animation, sculpture and architecture. His work appropriates a broad range of cultural references including Hollywood films, nineteenth-century utopian social projects, Disney animation and landscape painting.


Huyghe was born in Paris, France in 1962 and graduated form the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in 1985. Huyghe has had solo exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. His work has been exhibited at Documenta 11, Kassel, the Istanbul Biennial, and in 2001 he represented France at the Venice Biennale. He was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim in 2002. He currently lives and works in Paris.