"trying to find Pierre Huyghe's new work without quite realising they are already in it. Huyghe's Liminals is more than just a film projected on a towering screen in a gutted power station. It is a quantum experiment, a mythological journey and a terrifying vision, set to a shifting thrum of gut-wobbling vibrations, a sizzling aural rain of dancing particles and sudden ear-splitting crackles which ricochet everywhere."
"You can't always tell what's happening on the screen and what's happening in the cavernous space around you. Distances are hard to gauge film still from Pierre Huyghe's Liminals, at Halle am Berghain, Berlin. Photograph: Pierre Huyghe. Photo Andrea Rossetti VG Bild I could feel the vibrations even on the street outside, looking up at the brooding hulk of the defunct 1950s power and heating plant that once serviced the socialist paradise of postwar East Berlin."
"Now the home of the world's most famous techno venue, Berghain, it also hosts a queer sex club, dark spaces and bars, while the plant's former boiler room, the Halle am Berghain, with its columns and suspended coal chutes, has currently been taken over by the LAS Art Foundation to stage a number of exhibitions, including Huyghe's Liminals. Light comes and goes on the screen, never quite enough to let you sense the volume of the space you have entered."
Huyghe's Liminals occupies a gutted 1950s power and heating plant, where concrete stairs, pillars and cavernous architecture shape visitor movement. Sparse light, smartphone glow and architectural darkness make distances hard to gauge and blur the boundary between projected image and physical space. A towering screen displays near-human figures in desiccated, Mars-like landscapes; faces sometimes resolve into yawning cavities. A shifting soundscore of gut-wobbling vibrations, sizzling aural rain and ear-splitting crackles saturates the space and can be felt beyond the building. The installation combines film, sound and site-specific architecture to create disorientation, mythic scale and visceral anxiety.
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