Pierre Huyghe — Camata — Bourse de Commerce — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Starts today: February 26 → May 22, 2026

As part of the exhibition “Clair-obscur,” the film Camata (2024) by Pierre Huyghe is presented at the heart of the museum, in the Rotunda. Conceived as an immersive experience, it invites viewers to meditate on the place of human beings within a universe shaped and governed by technology.

Camata unfolds in a landscape suspended between day and night, where a strange robotic ballet takes place. Around a human skeleton discovered without burial in the Atacama Desert in Chile, a group of machines performs an enigmatic ritual. Mechanical arms, powered by solar panels and guided by machine-learning algorithms, execute a slow and precise choreography, handling glass spheres and amulets as if enacting a funeral ceremony. Through this simultaneously archaic and technological dispositif, the artist stages a constant hybridization: life and death, reality and fiction, body and landscape, past, present and future, shadow and light, human and non-human intertwine. The ever-shifting rhythm of the images reinforces the sense of an unstable world shaped by invisible forces.

Presented prominently in the Rotunda, the film extends Huyghe’s ongoing exploration of the intersections between ritual, cosmos, and technology, offering a profound reflection on the future of humanity.

Curator: Emma Lavigne, General Director of the Collection, Chief Curator.