{"product_id":"pierre-huyghe-untitled-human-mask-paperback","title":"Pierre Huyghe: Untitled (Human Mask) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic \u003ci\u003eUntitled (Human Mask)\u003c\/i\u003e, which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769542639904,"sku":"9781846382130","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/20f8207fcdf5d59d2748249a2e58e675.webp?v=1780350494","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pierre-huyghe-untitled-human-mask-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}