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PIERRE HUYGHE
Born Paris, 1962. Lives in Paris and New York
Nine Perfect Minutes, 2000
Video, 1.47
Courtesy of the Marian Goodman Gallery Paris/ New York
Set in the wall, this video is actually a still image - a reproduction of the page of a magazine - which represents a young woman apparently sitting inside a vehicle near a window looking onto the sea. The image imperceptibly darkens and clears itself again, and if one looks carefully at the woman, she appears to be breathing. This darkening and lightening of the image, like a disturbing sexual seduction, plays with the notions of appearance and disappearance, of annihilation and resurrection, yet equally alludes to day-dreaming, a phenomenon which both accelerates time and interrupts it. The transparency of the window, amplified by the device of the screen, produces a glassy, untouchable image which is discreetly organic. This minimalist narrative diffuses a mysterious tension - that of someone who finds herself vaguely in danger, subjected as she is to a repeated attempt to immerse her in emptiness.
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