Pierre Huyghe's In.Border.Deep exhibition features aquarium works linked to Monet's weather records

Pierre Huyghe's solo exhibition In.Border.Deep presents three aquarium works titled Nymphéas Transplant (all 2014) containing elements from Claude Monet's Giverny ponds. The switchable glass in these aquariums becomes opaque intermittently, programmed according to weather records from 1914 to 1918 when Monet painted his Nymphéas series. Visitors glimpse fish and salamanders among lily roots before the glass turns milky white. Another work, La Déraison, features a headless classical sculpture with a heating element encouraging moss and spider habitation. The video De-extinction focuses for twelve minutes on amber containing insects trapped mid-intercourse. Human Mask, a video work, shows a Macau monkey wearing a porcelain mask of a young girl's face in an abandoned sake house post-Fukushima. This references a real establishment in Utsunomiya, Japan where monkeys delivered towels to customers. Huyghe's exhibition explores themes of reanimation, origins, and ecological constraints. The show was reviewed in ArtReview's December 2014 issue.