Pierre Huyghe’s Newest Work Leans on the Tired Male Gaze
Artnet News reviewed Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition Liminals at Halle am Berghain in Berlin, describing it as a major project within the LAS Art Foundation’s “Sensing Quantum” program that took three years to develop and was published on 19 February 2026. The review notes that the show features a large-scale, 50-minute film projected at over 30 feet high, accompanied by a low-frequency soundscape in the cavernous former power-station venue. It situates the work within Huyghe’s recent turn toward AI-driven image systems and references his presentation at the Pinault Collection during the 2024 Venice Biennale. The critic argues that the central imagery—described as a naked, white woman of reproductive age depicted as vulnerable and faceless—relies on a “male gaze” framing despite institutional claims of neutrality and engagement with uncertainty and quantum theory.
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