New York Times Best Art Books 2024
12 Dec, 2024
Pierre Huyghe: Liminal, named as one of New York Times Best Art Books of 2024 by Jason Farago, containing the essay “From Projection to Embedding: Sense-Making and Conceptual Inadaptation“
No show this year was more innovative, more affecting, more present-tense than this French artist’s shadowy, constantly evolving nonretrospective in Venice, which filled a 17th-century customs house with lifelike brain scans, 500-million-year-old fossils, robots who perform autopsies in the Chilean desert, and masked performers speaking in an A.I.-enabled idioglossia. (There were some in vitro cancer cells, for good measure.) The career-spanning catalog for “Liminal” is as clear as the show was murky, and offers newcomers a prime introduction to someone whose living, breathing art asks the most fundamental question: What, if anything, makes us human? [Article excerpt]