{"product_id":"9781846382130","title":"Pierre Huyghe","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Mark Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035458777300,"sku":"9781846382130","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_933d1355-eef5-4d35-8bc5-0538f4e5cb35.jpg?v=1780351332","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781846382130","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}