Camille Henrot<br/>
<em>The Pale Fox</em> 2014. Exhibition View, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2014<br/>
Image of tiger by photographer Tim Flach<br/>
Photo. Anders Sune Berg<br/>
Courtesy of the artist, kamel mennour, Paris/London and König Galerie, Berlin/London/Seoul.<br/>
© ADAGP Camille Henrot

Camille Henrot

Is Today Tomorrow

Free entry

NGV International

Level 3

25 Jun 21 – 23 Jan 22

Camille Henrot is one of the most compelling contemporary artists working today. Born in Paris in 1978, the Berlin-based artist works across diverse media including sculpture, drawing, video and installation. Henrot references self-help, online second-hand marketplaces, cultural anthropology, literature, psychoanalysis, and social media to question what it means to be at once a private individual and a global subject.

The exhibition features key works from the past decade including a group of new works on paper never before exhibited. Also featured is the first Australian presentation of the immersive room-scale installation The Pale Fox, 2014, a companion piece to the widely exhibited Grosse Fatigue, 2013, for which Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale for most promising young artist. The Pale Fox attempts to explain the origins of the universe, drawing from research she undertook during a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC in 2013.

Henrot often uses humour in her works, for example, in the Interphone series of sculptures that explore our relationship to authority and technology. In these interactive works, she invites visitors to pick up a customised telephone and respond to prompts which offer answers to questions like how to know if your partner is cheating or what to do with an aggressive dog.

In 2017, Henrot held a major career survey exhibition Days are Dogs at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, as part of the Carte Blanche series. She has held solo exhibitions at Chisenhale Gallery, London; Fondazione Memmo, Rome; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; New Orleans Museum of Art; Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris; the New Museum, New York, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan, as well as Art Sonje Center, Seoul.

Henrot has participated in group exhibitions in Australia, most recently the NGV Triennial in 2017. This is Camille Henrot’s first major survey exhibition in Australia.

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Camille Henrot
Bad Dad & Beyond 2015
three dimensional resin print, HDMI 4 pi 10.1", HMDI cable, 9V AC/DC 1000 mA
power adaptor, IR sensor, 8 ohm speaker small, class D amp, soundcard (USBconnected),
1/8" cable, pushbutton, jumper wire: 6-pin female conn, RJ11 jack, 25 ft
Vodavi Gray Phone Cord, Rasp Pi 2 Model B V1.1, power cord USB, ethernet cable
24 x 20 x 9 inches (phone)
61 x 50.8 x 22.9 cm
44 x 20 x 9 inches (overall)
111.8 x 50.8 x 22.9 cm
Edition 1 of 2, 1 AP
Collection of The Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection / EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Camille Henrot
I am both Saturn's child and Saturn himself, 2019, from the System of Attachment series, 2019-2020.
Courtesy of the artist, kamel mennour, Paris/London, König Galerie, Berlin/London/Seoul and Metro Pictures, New York.
© Zachary Tyler Newton
Camille HENROT
Saturday 2017 (still)
3D video, colour, sound
19 min 32 sec
ed. 9/9
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Contemporary Art, 2019
2019.284
© Camille Henrot, courtesy of Metro Pictures
Installation view of the exhibition the exhibition Camille Henrot: Is Today Tomorrow at NGV International
Photo: Tom Ross
Installation view of the exhibition the exhibition Camille Henrot: Is Today Tomorrow at NGV International
Photo: Tom Ross
Camille Henrot
The Pale Fox 2014
Installation views, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2014
Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery in partnership with Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Bétonsalon – Centre for art and research, Paris and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
© ADAGP Camille Henrot
Photo. Andy Keate
Courtesy kamel mennour, Paris and Johann König, Berlin.

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Works in this exhibition are protected under the Australian Government's Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan Scheme. Find out more