Pierre Huyghe If the Snake /anglais

Both artist book and guide to the works presented at the Okayama Art Summit 2019, convened by Pierre Huyghe as artistic director. Participating artists included Matthew Barney, Tino Sehgal, Tarek Atoui, Pamela Rosenkranz and others.The publication "If the Snake" guides you through the 20 exhibiting artists and collaborative projects behind the Okayama Art Summit 2019 convened by Pierre Huyghe as artistic director. The book distinguishes itself as an artist book with concept, text, and images chosen by Pierre Huyghe, allowing the reader to experience the exhibition. It is an entity, a being-milieu affecting the city through invisible presences, different intelligent forms, chemical, biological, and algorithmic processes. Each feature within this situated entity has inherently dynamic qualities that, due to the conditions of their co-presence, endlessly grow as particular and contingent modes of continuity.