Camille Henrot / France

France born 1978, works in United States 2011–

The part-human, part-animal and part-machine creation Contrology, 2016, looks as though it could be performing Pilates, and Contrology is, indeed, an early term for this fitness regimen. The bronze sculpture is one in a series by Camille Henrot that humorously explores Monday and feelings that the first day of the week inspires, from renewed faith in the possibility for change to despondency over the tedium of weekly routine. How humans impose order onto their experience has been the focus of much of Henrot’s creative output in recent years.

BIO

Camille Henrot has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the 9th Berlin Biennale; Prospect 3, New Orleans; the 13th Biennale de Lyon; and the 2014 Taipei and Gwangju Biennials. She received the Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, the 2014 Nam Jun Paik Award, and the 2015 Edvard Munch Award, which will be accompanied by a one-person exhibition at the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2018. In 2014 she presented The Pale Fox at Chisenhale Gallery, London, later traveling to Bétonsalon, Paris; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; and Westfalen Kunstverein Münster, Germany. In 2017 her major solo exhibition Days are Dogs opened at Palais de Tokyo, and she had further one-person exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.