Camille Henrot

Self Effacing Management Politics 2 (Desktop Series), 2016

Long Lake Estates

Amoeba, 2014

Long Lake Estates

Camille Henrot was born in France in 1978, and now lives and works in New York.

Henrot shot to international art world fame in 2013 with the presentation of her 13-minute video, Grosse Fatigue, at the 55th Venice Biennale, where it won her the Silver Lion. The work is a meditation on contemporary image culture, knowledge production, and the 21st-century media. It raises questions about the burdensome task of accumulating encyclopedic knowledge.

This sculpture is part of her Desktop Series and was included in her exhibit titled: The Pale Fox. Camille Henrot’s “Desktop Series” refers to the current use of the computer desktop as a universal space of creation while reflecting on the loss of materiality through small bronze sculptures. As small objects containing a world of ideas, the sculptures counter-balance the immaterial state of computer desktops through their weight and materiality.

Recent solo exhibitions include

• Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2015)

• Bétonsalon, Paris (2014)

• Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2014)

• New Museum, New York (2014)

• Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2014)

• The Baltimore Museum of Art (2014).

Works appears in

• François Pinault Foundation, Venice

• Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

• Caja de Burgos, Barcelona

• Hara Museum, Tokyo

• LACMA, Los Angeles

• Museum of Modern Art, New York

• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

• The Guggenheim Museum, New York.