Human Mask - Pierre Huyghe - Hauser & Worth - London

I have to commend this film while giving the reader as little information as possible so you might come to it as I did, completely unprepared. That it involves a human mask is difficult to withhold, beyond that, I'm saying nothing except it must be seen. Art that bothers to think, to say something beyond mumbling to itself or, more popularly, shrieking about its creator is rare enough. Works which do speak, which actively seek to engage beyond their constructed worlds, often propose answers to the viewer's unasked questions. The problem with answers is that their utility is entirely dependent the confirmation bias of the recipient. Truly great art asks questions to which the viewer must build personally meaningful answers. This piece proposes a series of questions of such profundity, with such breathtaking skill that I cannot imagine it ever failing to engage utterly. Achingly beautiful, disturbing and mesmerizing. Until November the 1st.