"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"No Ghost Just a Shell" (collaboration with Philippe Parreno) (1999-2003)
"No Ghost Just a Shell" (collaboration with Philippe Parreno), 1999-2003
"A Smile Without a Cat," 2002. Fireworks event, Miami Beach, Florida. Photo by Angel Art Ltd.
© Pierre Huyghe, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/New York.
"A Smile Without a Cat," 2002. Fireworks event, Miami Beach, Florida. Photo by Angel Art Ltd.
© Pierre Huyghe, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/New York.
"At the end, we decided to take this character out of representation. So we set up a fireworks event called ‘A Smile Without a Cat’, blowing it up. And we decided to give the copyright to the sign, to the creature or character itself. I freed it from being represented. It cannot be represented any more. At least, it’s a transformation- not an end."
- Pierre Huyghe
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