Pierre Huyghe-Erin Hepper

Today in class we got to learn more about French artist Pierre Huyghe. I was intrigued by his work so I just looked up some more information on him and wanted to view more of his work. I found a lot of information on one of his particular works entitled "Third Memory." This was created in 1999 and takes clips from the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon," starring Al Pacino, which is based on the true story of a bank robbery in Brookyln committed by John Woytowicz. Huyghe's work is a two channel video projection showing clips from the film and then clips showing images of the real account. The idea is that the "first memory" is that of the original crime, the "second memory" is that of the film based on the crime, and the "third memory" is a blurring of the documented and the imagined. After researching this particular piece I had a lot more respect for Huyghe because of the fact that the purpose and message behind his work is actually really interesting and significant. I also have a lot of respect for him because the message his work conveys isn't really hard to decipher or a far stretch of the imagination. Its fairly obvious but is displayed in a really unique way. The "third memory," the meshing of reality, history, memory, and fiction, is something that happens SO incredibly often, especially in today's society that is full of media coverage and distortion. I think Huyghe's piece opens viewers eyes up to the fact that we must be aware that there are different perspectives and "memories"for each story

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