For Pierre Huyghe, unstable perception reveals a liminal space where states are superimposed. It is analogous to how a quantum system can exist in multiple states before it is measured, when infinite possibilities collapse into a single version of reality. To explore these ideas, LAS Art Foundation and Hartwig Art Foundation have brought together Huyghe and scientist Tommaso Calarco. Their conversations have resulted in Huyghe’s use of the logic and outputs of quantum systems as raw material. This raw material informs the final work through experiments with sound as well as moving and still images. These innovative approaches to production embody states of uncertainty, transforming quantum properties into sensitive experiences.
The new work commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and Hartwig Art Foundation extends his inquiry into the search for meaning outside of human comprehension, as could be informed by the logic of quantum computation and AI. At a moment when quantum and AI technologies are beginning to converge, this project not only stages their philosophical and perceptual implications, but also asks what worlds might be conceived of — impossible, unstable, or yet to come.
Pierre Huyghe's latest large-scale environment encompasses film, sound, vibration, dust, and light and will debut at Halle am Berghain with LAS (23 January — 8 March 2026) before travelling to Amsterdam with Hartwig Art Foundation.
An observer witnessing the ambiguous nature of the entity, its monstrosity, follows states of indeterminacy — of the uncertainty of being, living or existing. The film portrays an inexistent being, a soulscape, a radical outside, striving to combine empathy with the impossible. [Its fictional world is a] vehicle for accessing what could be or could not be — to relate with chaos; and turns states of uncertainty into a cosmos.
— Pierre Huyghe