Indeed, henrot is committed to the idea of otherness, so she often combines disparate forms to create wholly new objects. Henrot references literature, mythology, cinema, and anthropology to reconsider the typologies of objects and established systems of knowledge. Camille henrot the restless earth the brooklyn rail. With grosse fatigue, henrot set herself the challenge of telling the story of the universes creation. Grosse fatigue is a minute color video that includes videos of screens, bodies, computer desktop, and computer windows. Art federico nicolao 4 june 20 versatile, solitary, talented. Extracts from the video grosse fatigue 20, video, color, sound. It tells the story of the creation of the universe via layers of popup boxes on a virtual screen, and won the french new yorkbased artist the silver. Camille henrot grosse fatigue, 20 voice over in the beginning there was no earth, no water nothing. Her work includes video installation, sculpture, drawing. In 2012, when camille henrot was researching grosse fatigue her acclaimed minute video about the history of the universe, the nature of myth, and the.
With grosse fatigue, camille henrot set herself the challenge of telling the story of the universes creation. Like grosse fatigue, which earned her a silver lion at the venice biennale in 20, saturday starts with a long. The exhibition is curated by massimiliano gioni, associate director and director of exhibitions, and gary carrionmurayari, kraus family curator. She founded also maharaja films, production company with a line up including the strife of love in a dream directed by camille henrot, recipient of the biennale silver lion in 20 for grosse fatigue. A backwards trajectory through camille henrots days are. An interview with camille henrot by jason farago, even. Henrot created grosse fatigue during her 20 fellowship at the smithsonian institution in washington d. She is the recipient of the 2014 nam june paik award and. The hard drive is named history of the universe, and we see a few files on the desktop as one in particular, grosse fatigue, zooms to the center. Like much of henrot s work, grosse fatigue layers the historic and the contemporary, drawing on a wealth of sources to create a poetic exploration of information overload in the digital age. A backwards trajectory through camille henrot s days are dogs a pulsing flower, a botox injection, a watery baptism. Grosse fatigue 20, which earned henrot the silver lion at this years. A 20 fellowship at the smithsonian resulted in the film grosse fatigue, for which she was awarded the silver lion at the 55th venice biennale.
In the beginning there was an immense unit of energy. The restless earth will be on view on the second floor from may 7june 29, 2014. Feb 19, 2015 born in 1978, camille henrot lives and works in new york. Camille henrots elephant child by ross simonini cover of camille henrot s elephant child, 2016. Apr 21, 2015 this pin was discovered by iaching astrid bai. Grosse fatigue, a min video installation, was produced during a residency at the smithsonian institute in washington, d. Pdf about grosse fatigue by camille henrot katharina. Camille henrot s solo exhibition the restless earth made full use of the new museums second floor, leading viewers through a loop of rooms with diverse characters, plots, and settings. Camille henrot, grosse fatigue, installation view at the arsenale on the occasion of the 55th international art exhibition venice biennale the list would be long. Camille henrot, grosse fatigue, installation view at the. Camille henrot mac montreal musee dart contemporain.
Camille henrots solo exhibition the restless earth made full use of the new. French, new yorkbased artist camille henrot creates animated videos, films, sculptures, drawings, and photographs, all of which defy traditional art historical categories. Camille henrot artist bio and art for sale artspace. Her recent work, adapted into the diverse media of sculpture, drawing, photography and, as always, film.
Grosse fatigue versatile, solitary, talented, the french artist brings an encyclopaedic video on the history of the universe to the 55th international art exhibition venice biennale, which awarded her a silver lion at the event. Henrot, who hails from brittany, was the recipient last year of the silver lion award at the 55th venice biennale, for her video grosse fatigue 20, in. A 20 fellowship at the smithsonian resulted in her film grosse fatigue, for which she was awarded the silver lion at the 55th venice biennale. Characterised by what henrot has called a cataloguing psychosis, this vast installation features en masse more than 500 objects encompassing. The bma is the first museum in the us to present french artist camille henrot s grosse fatigue, winner of the silver lion award at the 20 venice biennale. Camille henrot grosse fatigue from collectif combo pro.
Grosse fatigue begins and ends on a computer desktop, where we see the macs default desktop image of a solar system. The information overload of the online experience is brought to life in camille henrot s the pale fox, where objects bought from ebay sit alongside museum loans, comic strips and educational posters, in an exhibition that celebrates insatiable and obsessive curiosity. Grosse fatigue attempted to tell the story of the universe whereas the pale fox is a meditation on our shared desire to understand the world intimately through the objects that surround us. But arent such dark and lonely burdens meant to become as light. Henrot s video piece, grosse fatigue, 20, is a minute visual compendium, a parade of disparate images including taxidermied birds, housewares, photographs of fruit, reptiles, and a woman in white undies, touching herself. Commissioned by the centre pompidou in 2009, it predates her critically acclaimed piece grosse fatigue 20. Camille henrot is a french artist who lives and works in new york. The universe according to camille henrot, at prospect. Bestknown for her videos and animated films combining drawn art, music and occasionally scratched or reworked cinematic images, camille henrot s work blurs the traditionally hierarchical categories of art history. In the beginning there was no earth, no water nothing. In her short film grosse fatigue, visuals mined from the smithsonians archives flit around in web browser windows, while ma montagne is a series of sculptures inspired by artisanal cheese makers. The video makes use of themes such as insanity, madness, euphoria, and information overload. On the occasion of grosse fatigue s inclusion in tiffs future projections program, camille henrot graciously took the time to answer some questions while in the midst of preparing her large solo exhibition, cities of ys, set to open at the new orleans museum of art in early october. Artist camille henrot debuts a clothing collaboration with.
Camille henrot i always felt like language was a way to dominate people, and especially as a nonenglish speaker, i often feel very powerless and vulnerable here in new york. Installation view, fondazione memmo, rome camille henrot courtesy the artist, fondazione memmo, rome, and kamel mennour, paris. Kamel mennour and camille henrot have been working together since 2009. I can tell when someone is trying to intimidate me, because they will ask me to repeat myself two or three times. Camille henrots venice biennale hit coming to canada. Camille henrot s singlechannel video grosse fatigue blends together origin narratives from many cultures and disciplines combined with images of work, exhibits and spaces at the smithsonian institute in washington dc, where, as part of the smithsonian artist research fellowship, she was granted permission to film aspects of the collections. Biennale arte 20 camille henrot grosse fatigue youtube. A still from camille henrot s film grosse fatigue 20, which won the silver lion at this years venice biennale. Then she wants to catalogue, systematize, and place it all into a context of her own labyrinthine design. Camille henrot s days are dogs and the erasure of the meaning of difference. The energetic minute video on the origins of life and creation myths incorporates behindthescenes footage of the prestigious collections at the smithsonian institutes museum of natural history. The programs focus is on interdisciplinary, conceptoriented and spacebased approaches in a variety of media including sculpture, video, sound, painting, printmaking, photography and performance. For one thing, it would bring us to think that the fall of french art on the international market is to be attributed exclusively to the unbearable insistence with which no one dares defend and promote women artists in france.
At last years venice biennale, camille henrot s film grosse fatigue, produced during her fellowship at the smithsonian in washington dc, was the work people wouldnt stop talking about. A 20 fellowship at the smithsonian resulted in her film grosse fatigue, for which she was awarded the silver lion. The internets neartranscendent ability to index and access all human knowledge virtually and instantly is the subject of camille henrot s grosse fatigue, a minute singlechannel video presented at the 55th venice biennales curated program, the encyclopedic palace. In her film and video animations, sculpture, drawing, and photography, camille henrot a winner of the prestigious silver lion award at the venice biennaleexamines systems of knowledge and the way in which disparate cultures and locations have been represented throughout art history. Indeed, the fatigue is grosse, or hugely weighty, she who has condemned herself to carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders like the titan atlas. The last city, the new film by heinz emigholz, begins with a confession. Given the scale and the diverse nature of my work, i wanted to provide an organizational framework to ensure that the trajectory of the exhibition was cohesive and familiar for the visitor. Created from material filmed during a twomonth residency at the smithsonian. Camille henrot, the frenchborn, new york citybased contemporary artist, will be celebrated in an australianfirst survey of works that take a playful and.
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