Skeleton, Dust, Soil

Out in the Atacama Desert in Chile, known as the driest place on Earth, a place used to test the habitability of exoplanets, the skeleton of a dead man lies in a prone position so that it looks like he is still dying. There is no life in that desert, but artist Pierre Huyghe has an idea that the dead man’s bones and flesh have seeped into the soil beneath him, perhaps altering it so that life can be created in the desert after all. ‘Skeleton, Dust, Soil’ is an insight into an artist’s reflections on his own complicated practice in the midst of a work’s creation in an ever-changing world.