Camille Henrot: In Movement
As she grinds pigments, sifts through references, and applies gestural strokes across multiple surfaces in succession, artist Camille Henrot embraces speed and openness in her painting practice, leaving room for possibility. This film follows Henrot as she moves fluidly between media and ideas–from her New York studio, where she mines her vast archive of images to create new paintings and drawings, to a Paris foundry, where she crafts a new body of bronze sculptures, to an edit suite where she develops her latest film, In the Veins (2026). “I’m not attracted to a medium per se,” says the artist. “I’m more attracted by an idea, a way to operate, or a process.” Across her work in film, sculpture, painting, and drawing, Henrot reflects on our vast visual culture to produce a body of work that uniquely captures the speed, size, and complexity of our current moment.
Credits
Director: Adam Golfer. Executive Producer: Tina Kukielski. Series Producer: Ian Forster. Producer: Andrea Chung. Editor: Danya Abt. Cinematography: Adam Golfer. Sound: TJ Proechel. Assistant Camera: Adrian Bernard & Pat Raymond. Gaffer: Tim Ciavara. Colorist: Cédric von Niederhäusern. Sound Mix: Collin Blendel. Music: Jake Vest. Associate Curator: Jurrell Lewis. Assistant Editors: Stephanie Cen & Michelle Hanks.
Artwork Courtesy: Camille Henrot, Hauser & Wirth, Mennour.
Special Thanks: Yann Chapotel, Charles Milome, Léa Trudel.
Extended Play is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts; and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; Dawn and Chris Fleischner; the Art21 Contemporary Council; and by individual contributors.
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Camille Henrot was born in 1978 in Paris and currently lives and works in New York City. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2002. Henrot’s diverse body of work includes paintings that blend figuration and abstraction, bronze sculptures with forms reflecting quotidian objects and human anatomy, and films that draw on a disparate array of sources and visual cultures. The artist explores the speed, scale, and complexity of life and information in the twenty-first century, building a body of work that addresses how we perceive and make sense of the world around us.
“I make several drawings at the same time. I’m doing just a touch on one and then on the other one. It’s a way to keep all possibilities open, which I always try to do.”
Camille Henrot