Commissioned by the Leeum Museum of Art, SOL studio created a film for the occasion of <Pierre Huyghe: Liminal>, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Asia. Spanning across the museum’s cavernous black box and ground gallery spaces, Huyghe’s works are presented as an immersive, non-linear experience. Shrouded in darkness, eerie voices emanate from ghostly figures, their faintly glowing masks shifting to and from the shadows. Elsewhere, sunlight seeps in from far above, letting in windows of recessed light while blind, silvery creatures flitter in between subterranean rock formations. Darkness and silence impose a rigor to previously-numbed senses: periodic slivers of sensory input are felt all the more vividly. The eyes immediately lock in on the most minute movements of a minuscule crab, and the ears perk at the whispery non-voices of Huyghe’s many apparitions.

To best recreate the sensory experience of the exhibition, SOL studio worked in close dialogue with the artist. The resulting film aims to capture this non-didactic, dream-like sequence of works, through which a viewer could traverse seemingly without direction or order. Visions and sounds fade in and out, bleeding into each other in the absence of clearly defined rules or boundaries. Perspectve and motion are placed in apparent disorder, creating a muffled sense of disorientation. Mirroring the two exhibition halls that Hyughe’s works’ inhabit, stark contrasts are steadily eroded. Light and dark, above and below slowly seep into one another, until they are indistinguishable.