The Roof Garden Commission by Pierre Huyghe was my favorite exhibit. Pierre Huyghe (born 1962, Paris) will install the third in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Huyghe has spent the past 25 years working across media to create ritualistic and immersive encounters with art. At the Met, his project will explore the continuous transformation of cultural and natural systems through a complex grouping of heterogeneous elements derived from the Museum’s collection, architecture, and its environs. A related installation, Pierre Huyghe: Human Mask, will present the New York premiere of Huyghe’s new 19-minute video, Untitled (Human Mask) , which portrays a mysterious creature’s resilience in the aftermath of natural and man-made disaster.
