People who are under certain stress have aquariums. Aquariums are classically either a reproduction of nature or a decorative element, like the ones you can see in big hotels. — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed - but there is still the building. I was looking for something between an experiment and an extended ritual. I asked 15 actors to be in this museum and take the position of the museum's personnel. I put… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share
With the garden I planted for the Reina Sofia, each plant related to different celebrations along the calendar - Christmas with evergreen trees, Valentine's Day with roses, Halloween with pumpkins. All these symbols are so culturally loaded, but they are organic living entities - just like the fish in the tanks. They grow on their own. The symbolic ecosystem is… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share
People who are under certain stress have aquariums. Aquariums are classically either a reproduction of nature or a decorative element, like the ones you… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
I don't want to exhibit something to someone anymore. I want to do the reverse: I want to exhibit someone to something. — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
When I know who is speaking, I see that there is a commitment. I need to know there is some commitment. I need to… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
You don't just find an empty museum and say, "I should do something here." I was looking for another kind of venue or exhibition… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait. — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the diversity of people in New York. I like to be lost. I like to feel like a foreigner. I… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
I put an octopus in aquarium, and it would eat the others. But if you put an octopus in with a school of tiny… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
You can go to a psychoanalyst one day and then go the next day and something else will come out. So, yes, there was… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
