Camille Henrot

Grosse Fatigue

"Grosse Fatigue" is a 13-minute color video that includes videos of screens, bodies, computer desktop, and computer windows. Henrot created Grosse Fatigue during her 2013 fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The video makes use of themes such as insanity, madness, euphoria, and information overload. The work was presented during the Venice Biennale, upon the invitation of curator Massimiliano Gioni. With Grosse fatigue, Henrot set herself the challenge of telling the story of the universe’s creation. The text that provides the audio component of the work was written in collaboration with Jacob Bromberg, performed by artist Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh, and accompanied with music was composed by Joakim.

The Pale Fox

In 2014 the Chisenhale Gallery in London, in partnership with Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Bétonsalon – Centre for art and research, Paris and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, commissioned The Pale Fox, an exhibition comprising an architectural display system, found objects, drawing, bronze and ceramic sculpture and digital images. The exhibition consisted of architectural display systems, found objects, drawings, bronze and ceramic sculpture and digital images. The project purports to articulate our desire to make sense of the world through the objects that surround us. A catalogue of the show, entitled Elephant Child, will be published in 2016 by Inventory Press and Koenig Books.

"Bad Dad" series

In 2015, Camille began a series of works that ponder the nature of authority figures. This series involved watercolors, interactive sculptures, and a zoetrope. For an exhibition at Metro Pictures, Henrot created a number of 3D printed telephones that connect to surrealist hotlines.

Filmography

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions:

2016

La Fondazione Memmo, Rome (forthcoming)

2015

Metro Pictures, New York

Grosse Fatigue, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal

The Pale Fox, Galerie Johann König, Berlin

2014

The Restless Earth, New Museum, New York

The Pale Fox, Chisenhale Gallery, London; Bétonsalon, Paris; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Westfalen Kunstverein Münster, Germany (2015)

Snake Grass, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

2013

Cities of Ys, NOMA New Orleans Museum of Art

2012

Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?, Kamel Mennour, Paris

Jewels from the personal collection of Princess Salimah Aga Khan, Rosascape, Paris

2010

L’île à midi, Prix Marcel Duchamp, FIAC, Cour Carrée of the Louvre, Paris

Perspectives, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris

2009

Egyptomania, kamel mennour, Paris

Not To Die Twice, Centre d'art le Lait, Hôtel de Viviès, Castres, Paris

2008

The New World, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France

2007

The New World, Collection Saint-Cyprien, France

King Kong Addition, module of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2005

Atelier du Jeu de Paume, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris

Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Collections

Henrot’s work is represented in numerous major museum and public collections including François Pinault Foundation, Venice; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centre National des Arts Plastiques - Ministère de la culture et de la communication, France; Caja de Burgos, Barcelona; Hara Museum, Tokyo; LACMA, Los Angeles; MCA Chicago; NMNM, Monaco; Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Honours and awards

Edvard Munch prize in 2015.

Henrot won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Biennale in 2013 for Grosse Fatigue.

In 2014, she was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize.

Henrot also won the 2014 Nam June Paik Award.

In 2010, she was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp prize.