Pierre Huyghe's A.I. Art Monster Takes Over a Night Club in Berlin In "Liminals," a terrifying, overwhelming new installation, the artist erases the boundary between humans and the void. At the heart of the new piece is a fifty-five-minute film looped on an enormous screen. My preparation for "Liminals," an art work by Pierre Huyghe showing in Berlin, at Halle am Berghain, involved a small suitcase of books and articles about quantum physics, the science of sound, post-1968 France, relational aesthetics, and the sociology of techno. In the end, none of them proved useful. Among the heady possibilities dangled by the press release was an environment that would feature video, sound, light, and dust; exist outside of space and time; and operate in a state of quantum flux where "every moment is a maybe."

Two people dressed in black are kneeling on the floor, so still that they must surely be in pain. If they are grimacing, there would be no way to know – their features are obscured by oversized, smooth gold masks, as though they have buried their faces in half an Easter egg. Their stillness makes them seem like sculptures, and only by checking for the subtle rise and fall of their chests can you confirm they are indeed human. Which is fitting, really – because they aren't actually human, at least not totally. They're human-machine hybrids, "Idioms", created by French artist Pierre Huyghe for his largest ever exhibition, Liminal, at the Punta della Dogana in Venice.