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18/6/2014

Camille Henrot

Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

Camille Henrot (b. 1978) received the Silver Lion at last year’s Venice Biennial for her fantastic, fascinating, and razor-sharp video work Grosse Fatigue, which pinpoints our current era’s myriad impressions, collections, and networks. Since the Venice Biennial the art world has been eager to secure a piece of this French artist, who successfully links up everything from the history of the universe to eBay purchases and ancient artefacts to her private universe as it is emerges in her studio.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Jacob Fabricius: ”Camille Henrot is one of the most exciting and promising young artists on the art scene today. She can mix classical bronze sculptures with digital imagery and archival materials to poetic, seemingly effortless effect. There are very good reasons why she was recently nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in New York and received the prestigious Silver Lion at the Venice Biennial in 2013.

It gives Kunsthal Charlottenborg great pride to be able to present Camille Henrot’s first solo show in Denmark; an exhibition which includes an all-new, ambitious total installation: The Pale Fox. This new installation builds on the film Grosse Fatigue and its endless web of artefacts, links, and connections. Both works reflect Camille Henrot’s interest in collections and systematised information and knowledge – often based in anthropology and social archaeology – which she then goes on to augment, supplement, and interweave with contemporary googled discoveries and peculiar everyday objects. The sheer detail and diversity of her work make them a unique, overwhelming experience.

The National Museum of Denmark and the blue rooms

Henrot’s penchant for history and stories takes physical form in her work, and at Kunsthal Charlottenborg it even incorporates elements that are specific to Copenhagen: Henrot includes rare objects from the National Museum of Denmark’s unique collection of ethnographic artefacts. She elegantly interweaves the new and the old, the everyday and the unique, noise and silence in an impressive universe where a strikingly architectural shelf structure winds its way through the vividly blue rooms, accommodating all the individual parts that make up the total work. The Pale Fox is an enthralling work with an elegant soundtrack and awe-inspiring spatial devices that evoke a sense of infinity – a work that absolutely must be experienced in person!

The title of Henrot’s exhibition was taken from an anthropological study of the West African Dogon people; a study published by Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen in 1965. The mythology of the Dogon is believed to incorporate the beliefs and philosophies of several different cultures as well as ideas and concepts from the realms of astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Within the meta-narrative the figure of “The Pale Fox” represents disorder and chaos, but also creation; it is the deity behind the emergence of the sun!

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Camille Henrot (b. 1978) has exhibited her work extensively. Her recent solo shows include the New Museum, New York (2014); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2014); New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (2013), and the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia (2013). In 2010 she was nominated for the French Prix Marcel Duchamp, and in 2013 she received the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in Washington DC, where she produced the film Grosse Fatigue; the film went on to win her the Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennial 2013. Camille Henrot is nominated for the 2014 Hugo Boss Prize, which will be presented at the Guggenheim Museum later this year. Camille Henrot lives and works in New York. The Pale Fox was produced in collaboration with Chisenhale Gallery, London; Bétonsalon – Centre for art and research, Paris; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster.

The artist will be in Copenhagen between 16 and 20 June and will be happy to give interviews.

Image: Camille Henrot, still image from the film Grosse Fatigue (2013)

Press contact
For further information about the exhibition, please contact director Jacob Fabricius: +45 3374 4630 / jf@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk, curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer: +45 33744680 / hbm@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk, or project manager Anne Mikél: +45 33744631 / annemj@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk

Vernissage: 19 June at 19:00 – 22:00
Press view: 19 June at 11:00, followed by lunch
The artist will be present

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Nyhavn 2, 1051 København K
Opening hours and admission fees
Tuesdays - Sundays 11 – 17, Wednesdays 11 – 20 (free admission on Wednesdays 17 – 20)
Adults DKK 60 / Concession DKK 40 / OAPs DKK 40 / Groups DKK 40

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