Camille Henrot. A Number of Things

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Camille Henrot will debut an extraordinary new body of bronze sculptures, titled ‘Abacus,’ for her first major exhibition with the gallery in New York City. Evoking children’s developmental tools, shoes, distorted graphs and ancient counting devices, the large-scale sculptures, alongside smaller-scaled works such as ‘Tomber Pour Toujours’ and ‘Misfits,’ address the friction between a nascent sense of imagination and society’s system of signs. The sculptures will be presented together with vibrant new paintings from the artist’s ‘Dos and Don’ts’ series. Initiated in 2021, this series combines printing, painting and collage techniques where etiquette books become the palimpsest for play with color, gesture, texture and trompe l’oeil. The artworks will emerge from a flooring intervention—conceived and designed with Charlap Hyman & Herrero—that transforms the gallery into a site of sensory experimentation. Henrot’s exhibition vivaciously sets the stage for the arbitrary nature of human behavior to circulate freely between rule and exception.