Camille HENROT
조회 1,452
관리자 2020-09-05 13:11
Born 1978 in Paris, France
Lives in Paris
Camille HENROT, October 2015 Horoscope (detail), 2015, Five different sets of resin cigarette figures, set of resin weightlifter figures, set of resin Buddha figures, set of found object and resin vodka bottle figures, set of resin sad figures, set of found objects and resin pill bottles and pills, set of resin moon figures, ardiuno motor, LED strobe lights, splitter connecting LED and motor, control switch, 96.5×223.5×254cm
Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
“You are the last soft being in the machine,” said Electricity to the Human, in the short essay by Amalie SMITH, Electricity Speaks. Camille HENROT’s practice explores this softness in the system we live in, which is ordered, repetitive, homogeneous, and even destructive, amid a global pandemic and climate change crisis. In order to reflect specifically how progress defines itself within the frame of ambitions, the artist creates large-scale installations using different media. The selection of drawings the artist produced at her home during the lockdown and chose for the Biennial echo the moment we are in: there is no safe space anymore, contamination is everywhere, and bodies have never been more vulnerable. We don’t know if the relationship between a mother and a baby is based on protection, sharing of nutrients, or flesh-eating custom.