ART
Camille Henrot |
Written 30 January |
Wednesday 11 March, 09:00Galerie Kamel Mennour, 75006 [map]
Camille Henrot, born in 1978 in Paris, was first interested in sketching before making animation films, video clips and experimental film. Henrot often intervenes on the film fragments by working directly on the film with sketches and designs. Like a geologist or archaeologist, Camille Henrot excavates culture – her raw material. She uses cinema and popular music, not in the usual diverting way but by sending the viewer between the imaginary and real, between a desire for fiction and an awareness of the processes that go into making this possible. For her exhibition, the installation Hauts Reliefs and the showing of Cynopolis we are transported to Egypt and the site of the first pyramid at Sakkarah. Made up of 13 sculptures in plaster and sandstone, Hauts Reliefs initiates an original dialogue between sculpture and plastic bag, history, anecdote and everyday life, whilst the film Cynopolis shows images of this historic site whilst concentrating on workers, tourists and animals..
Born in Paris in 1978, Camille Henrot first came to public attention during the
exhibition “J’en rêve” at the Fondation Cartier in 2005. Since then, she has
developed a national and international career.
