Pierre Huyghe. UUmwelt is on view at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, United States, from 1 July to 29 November 2026. Presented in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, the installation places freestanding screens across the outdoor space, showing images produced through a collaboration between brain activity, machine learning and Huyghe’s long interest in systems beyond human control.

For UUmwelt, Huyghe worked with neuroscientists in Kyoto. A subject imagined a group of images while an fMRI scanner recorded brain activity; an artificial neural network then generated thousands of visual reconstructions from that data. The resulting images are not clear memories or direct translations, but shifting visual approximations: unstable, partial and strangely alive.

At MoMA, the work feels especially current because it asks what seeing means when images are no longer produced only by human eyes or hands. In the Sculpture Garden, Huyghe turns AI into something less like a tool and more like an environment — one that thinks with us, around us and beyond us.