Pierre Huyghe is a French artist who has gained international prominence in the last decade with works ranging across architecture, magazines, billboards, television, cinema and museum exhibitions.

Streamside Day at IMMA is the first presentation in this country of the work of this highly-regarded French artist.

Pierre Huyghe's Streamside Day is a 26-minute film in which the artist explores the relationship between the past, the present and the future. Streamside Day addresses the issues associated with reality and fiction, and individual and collective identity.

Streamside Day opens in an idyllic rural landscape where we see a deer and it's fawn among green pastures. As we trace the fawn's growth, in parallel we follow a family migrating to their new house - an urban housing development which will eventually supplant this natural environment.

The action builds up towards a central event - the Streamside Day, a neighbourhood festival featuring a speech by the mayor, fireworks, children dressed as animals and the obligatory band. These scenes are intercut with shots of the deer wandering the suburban road.

Streamside Day carries forward a recurring motif in Huyghe's work: rather than denigrate suburbia as a place of alienation and homogenisation, he seeks to seeks to celebrate man's desire to settle on the edge of nature.

The film also focuses on the artist's interest in the place of folklore and tradition in contemporary society and his fascination with communal rituals as an agent of change, growth and the evolution of society.

Admission is Free.
Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday: 10am - 5.30pm
Sunday & Bank Holidays: 12pm - 5.30pm

Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Royal Hospital
Kilmainham
Dublin 8.
Tel: +353 (0) 1 612 9900
Web: IMMA

Image: Streamside 3.jpg, Pierre Huyghe, Streamside Day, 2003, event, mixed media, film and video transfers, 26 minutes, colour and sound, courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.