Pierre Huyghe's Streamside Day Follies at Dia Art Foundation
In 2003, Pierre Huyghe presented 'Streamside Day Follies' at Dia Art Foundation in New York, a video installation that follows a family moving into a suburban housing development. The work juxtaposes natural imagery with the artificiality of the American dream, featuring a fawn wandering from forest to construction site. Huyghe's film captures a day in the life of a community celebrating its new utopia, with surreal details like children in animal costumes and a parade. The installation uses moving panels that reconfigure the gallery space, transforming it into a cinema. Huyghe's approach is ambivalent, neither moralizing nor mocking, but fascinated by the aspirations behind suburban life. The exhibition was one of Dia's last before a two-year closure and marked Huyghe's first major New York museum project. It later traveled to Castello di Rivoli in April 2004, and to Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, in autumn 2004.
Key facts
- Pierre Huyghe's 'Streamside Day Follies' was exhibited at Dia Art Foundation, New York, from November 1, 2003 to January 11, 2004.
- The installation features five moving panels that reconfigure the gallery space.
- The video follows a fawn from a forest into a suburban construction site.
- The film depicts a family moving into a new home in a housing development called Streamside.
- The work includes a parade with children in animal costumes and an adult in a plant-covered hoodie.
- Huyghe's technique emphasizes the conventions of film and video.
- The exhibition was one of Dia's last before a two-year closure.
- Huyghe's work was shown at Castello di Rivoli in April 2004 and at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, in autumn 2004.
Entities
Artists
- Pierre Huyghe
Institutions
- Dia Art Foundation
- Castello di Rivoli
- Galerie Marian Goodman
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Paris
- France
- Chelsea
Sources
- artpress —