CAMILLE HENROT

A French artist living and working in New York City, Camille Henrot’s multidisciplinary practice moves seamlessly between film, drawing, sculpture and installation. Her works reference self-help, second-hand online marketplaces, cultural anthropology, literature, psychoanalysis, and social media as a means of questioning what it means to be at once a private individual and a global subject.

ABOUT THE WORK:

Tuesday (2017) is a body of work combining video and sculpture that refers to both ancient mythology and the phenomenon of contemporary motivational messaging, as seen through the hashtag “#transformationtuesday,” for example. The film interweaves images of racehorses running, breathing, and having their hair groomed, with others showing jiu jitsu practitioners in slow motion as they train on mats before a match. Tuesday subverts competition and replaces it with passive contemplation and an exaggerated suspension of movement and action.