{"id":13195,"date":"2014-04-10T16:18:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=13195"},"modified":"2014-04-10T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:18:44","slug":"floral-language-with-camille-henrot-at-schinkel-pavillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/floral-language-with-camille-henrot-at-schinkel-pavillon\/","title":{"rendered":"Floral language with Camille Henrot at Schinkel Pavillon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Camille Henrot, Les Argonautes du pacifique, \u201cArgonauts of the Western Pacific\u201d, Bronislaw Malinowski (series “Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?”), 2012. Copyright ADAGP Camille Henrot. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris<\/p>\n

Camille Henrot lives between Paris and New York; her practice similarly seems to navigate the world, and contemplate its contents. Her subject matter ranges from anything to everything, and the more variety, the less commensurability. Particularly in her films, there is a randomness and vitality in what Henrot brings to the fore, but with each introduction, definition moves further beyond reach. Her quest for knowledge encounters an anthropological messiness: she comes not to a dead-end, but to an infinity of open ends. Henrot’s most prominent work recently, “Grosse Fatigue”, 2013, which won her the Silver Lion at last year\u2019s Venice Biennale, was made while on a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, the largest scientific museum complex in the world. “Grosse Fatigue” attempts to catalogue the mass of information from the establishment\u2019s archive, all from the artist\u2019s mac laptop. We begin with her galaxy desktop and footage pops up rhythmically in new windows, reminding us of that other, infinite realm of digital space.\u00a0Henrot’s work in general investigates cultural idiosyncrasies, which spawn cross-cultural reinterpretations and help to create her visual regurgitation of everything that has been. It is her intuitive and effortlessly engaging compositions, which make her work so vivid and memorable. Indeed, the possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n

\u201cSnake Grass\u201d (Henrot\u2019s first institutional solo in Germany) at the Schinkel Pavillon is an exhibition in two halves.\u00a0Downstairs, through a neon-red passage, the 2011 film “The Strife of Love in a Dream” is projected into the darkness. A key aspect of Henrot\u2019s film is not only her quick, cumulative layering of footage, but also the brilliant, tension-building sound from the electronic music producer, Joakim Bouaziz. The climactic relationship between drum crescendo and rampant visuals is hypnotic. The snake is here, and it\u2019s climbing over an ancient sculpture or an Indian landscape, or it\u2019s hissing from a blue bucket. This chop-and-change of vivid snapshots has become distinctive of Henrot\u2019s style. The film opens with the quote \u201cIndia is the unconscious of the West\u201d, and scenes of worship and pilgrimage are spliced with pill-factories producing 25 mg Atarax, a sedative antihistamine used to treat anxiety in adults, (perhaps induced by snakes?).<\/p>\n\n

Upstairs, the octagonal pavilion is filled with flower sculptures: a continuation of the 2011 series \u201cIs it Possible to Be a Revolutionary and Like Flowers?\u201d Here the artist appropriates the ancient Japanese tradition of\u00a0ikebana<\/em>\u00a0flower arranging, to express words without language. Beside each structural and exotic arrangement is the quote that formed it, and the Latin derivatives of the flowers that form part of it. This method of communication is a botanical code, which speaks visually rather than textually. It seems appropriate that constructed language, in all its variation, should be translated into something universal and natural, but are flowers up to the task? Henrot\u2019s\u00a0ikebana<\/em>\u00a0is an art form interpreted by a non-native, and the errors or inaccuracies are part of a greater challenge to understand cross-cultural systems of thought. So the discipline is used as a platform to guide communication but not restrict it. The flowers prove delicate and exotic, but meaning and clarity are sucked further into a black hole, which Henrot continues to dart around. Sure, the work is seductive, but it\u2019s in equal parts frustrating: meaning is out of reach, and the impossibility of knowing everything is ever-present.<\/p>\n

\"\" Camille Henrot, L’Homme sans honneur, \u201cArgonauts of the Western Pacific\u201d, Bronislaw Malinowski (series “Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?”), 2012. Copyright ADAGP Camille Henrot. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris.<\/p>\n

Rezension von Lilly Daniell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Camille Henrot,\u00a0<\/strong>Snake Grass<\/strong><\/p>\n

Schinkel Pavillon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

April 5\u2013May 11, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

The artist\u2019s upcoming show \u201cCamille Henrot: The Restless Earth\u201d will open at the New Museum, New York in May. Her solo exhibition \u201cThe Pale Fox\u201d at the Chisenhale Gallery, London closes this week. Henrot has been nominated for the 2014 Hugo Boss Prize.<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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