Pierre Huyghe at Punta della Dogana is among the best shows I’ve ever seen. So ambitious, intelligent, strange, transcendent, and expressive of the feeling of life today. No labels on the wall telling you how to interpret it. It’s worth coming to Venice just to experience this.
This Venice Biennale—now I’m here—feels anti-contemporary, desperately retrograde. There are no echos of the present here, just a yearning to escape. It’s a vision of art set completely adrift from 21st-century visual culture.
I think we live in a simulation, but not a computer simulation. I think we live in a simulation of the spirit world.
The universe is a simulation in that it’s a less real, less complex version of the spirit world, where disembodied souls live and where we, as souls, go when we…
