Named after a Japanese aesthetic concept, Yugen tackles heady ideas of universal awareness and beauty. Debuting in the U.S. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) this month, the moving-image work explores the space between art and artificial intelligence (AI) in both its form and content. Creator Martha Fiennes—director of noted features Onegin and Chromophobia—took an experimental approach to devising Yugen, in which an ethereal world leads the viewer in and out of distinct vignettes. The actress Salma Hayek Pinault is the central figure in the AI piece, drawing together the work’s diverse and intersecting moments as her muse floats through the dimensions without a defined beginning, middle, or end. The result is computer-generated imagery, film sequences, and musical scores fused into a hypnotic art piece.

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