The Thousands

Hidden amidst the first floor at the MCA, on a small patch of wall towards the back, there is a poster. Compared to the cobra-filled cotton fields and hammocked rooms of the Biennale showcase, it’s a small player. Yet this petit paper alludes to something much greater. **Pierre Huyghe’s poster is a calling card to a forest of sorts, one that will materialise this Wednesday on the stage, in the stalls and the circles of the Sydney Opera House. It’s to be a valley obscured by clouds, a maze and internal jungle through which an eerie voice is our lone guide. Although we don’t know exactly what to expect, if Huyghe’s past work, such as LES GRANDS ENSEMBLES (which won him the Guggenheim’s 2002 Hugo Boss Prize) and excerpts from his films and exhibitions are anything to go by; this will be worth the sacrificed lunch break.