But arent such dark and lonely burdens meant to become as light, as. Camille henrots films have also been presented and awarded at several film festivals such as directors fornight, cannes film festival, new york film festival, rotterdam international film festival, fid marseille, festival hors piste at centre pompidou, rencontres internationales parisberlinmadrid, annecy international animated film. She is the recipient of the 2014 nam june paik award and. Commissioned by the centre pompidou in 2009, it predates her critically acclaimed piece grosse fatigue 20. Installation view, fondazione memmo, rome camille henrot courtesy the artist, fondazione memmo, rome, and kamel mennour, paris. An interview with camille henrot by jason farago, even magazine. In the beginning there was no earth, no water nothing. The soundtrack was composed by french dj and composer joakim bouaziz henrots companion who leads music label tigersushi, and includes a text that henrot coauthored with her friend, poet jakob bomberg. She is the recipient of the 2014 nam june paik award and the 2015 edvard munch award. But arent such dark and lonely burdens meant to become as light, as beautiful and fragile as soap bubbles in the hands of an artist. Featuring grosse fatigue 20, an ambitious video that attempts to tell the story of the universes creation from a computer desktop and using the. Then she wants to catalogue, systematize, and place it all into a context of her own labyrinthine design. Camille henrot won the silver lion for best young promising artist at the venice biennial for her heady encyclopedic video grosse fatigue, an addictive mix of beats and anthropology which perfectly encapsulates our anxious, knowledgethirsty contemporary moment. Camille henrot play your part exhibition ngv hypebeast.
Collectif combo kamel mennour extracts from the video grosse fatigue 20, video, color, sound courtesy camille henrot grosse fatigue on vimeo join. Grosse fatigue attempted to tell the story of the universe whereas the pale fox is a meditation on our shared desire to understand the world intimately through the objects that surround us. For access to motion picture film stills please contact the film study center. Like much of henrots work, grosse fatigue layers the historic and the contemporary, drawing on a wealth of sources to create a poetic exploration of information overload in the digital age. Courtesy the artist, silex films, and kamel mennour, paris. Indeed, the fatigue is grosse, or hugely weighty, she who has condemned herself to. From art encounters foundation, camille henrot, grosse fatigue 20. A 20 fellowship at the smithsonian resulted in her film grosse fatigue, for which she was awarded the silver lion at the 55th venice biennale. Camille henrot untitled tropics of love series phillips.
Grosse fatigue is a curious hymn to foundation and creation, but above all to death and extinction. Filmed in 16mm, spatial film is a wandering through the apartment and cosmology of ideas of the architect and utopist yona. When i came to new york, i was deep in the research of grosse fatigue, and i was reading the pale fox 1945, by the anthropologist marcel griaule. Camille henrot, stepping on a serpent, tokyo opera city art gallery, tokyo, japan. Smugglers songs directed by rabah ameurzaimeche, jean vigo prize in 2011, locarno official competition 2011 and as french co. Indeed, the fatigue is grosse, or hugely weighty, she who has condemned herself to carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders like the titan atlas. A film by camille henrot at tate modern starr auditorium called grosse fatigue which attempts to tell the story of the universes creation from a computer desktop, 28 february 2014.
Biennale arte 20 camille henrot grosse fatigue youtube. More information is also available about the film collection and the circulating film and video library. Collectif combo kamel mennour extracts from the video grosse fatigue 20, video, color. Within that, a man wearing a dark suit and tie with a salmon shirt stumbles down a coldly lit institutional hallway.
She is most famous for grosse fatigue 20, a film financed in part by a smithsonian grant, which won henrot the silver lion at the 55th venice biennale more on. Fellowship for which henrot was granted permission to film the collections of the smithsonian archives of american art. She founded also maharaja films, production company with a line up including the strife of love in a dream directed by camille henrot, recipient of the biennale silver lion in 20 for grosse fatigue. Henrot created grosse fatigue during her 20 fellowship at the smithsonian institution in washington d. Mar 07, 2014 the pale fox continues the themes of henrots film grosse fatigue, which won her the silver lion for most promising young artist at last years venice biennale, and which formed part of. Translated as great exhaustion, it attempts to tell the story of the creation of the universe, combining mythical, religious, historic and scientific narratives, while a flow of images flash by. In her film and video animations, sculpture, drawing, and photography, camille henrota winner of the prestigious silver lion award at the venice biennaleexamines systems of knowledge and the way in which disparate cultures and locations have been represented throughout art history.
Video color, sound, min camille henrot courtesy the artist, silex films and kamel mennour, paris. Grosse fatigue is a minute color video that includes videos of screens, bodies, computer desktop, and computer windows. Camille henrot grosse fatigue from collectif combo pro. The works of camille henrot tend to be epic in scope and ambition. A 20 fellowship at the smithsonian resulted in the film grosse fatigue, for which she was awarded the silver lion at the 55th venice biennale. New yorkbased french artist camille henrot won the silver lion at venice for best young promising artist for her encyclopedic video grosse fatigue, a huge popular and critical hit, and a work many considered the perfect encapsulation of the biennale itself. The pale fox continues the themes of henrots film grosse fatigue, which won her the silver lion for most promising young artist at last years venice biennale, and which formed part of.
About four minutes into camille henrots short film grosse fatigue 20, a small popup computer window hovers over others in the center of the screen. Extracts from the video grosse fatigue 20, video, color, sound. With grosse fatigue, camille henrot set herself the challenge of telling the story of the universes creation. Oscillating between experimental fiction and anthropological gaze, a new film by french artist camille henrot, titled saturday, looks into the adventist church to explore the relationship between religion and globalization, signaling ritual as a substitute for progress, and hope as a seed of change. In the beginning there was an immense unit of energy. Feb 18, 2018 the installation extends from an earlier film of henrots titled grosse fatigue, which won her the silver lion at the venice biennale in 20.
Camille henrot is represented by kamel mennour, parislondon since 2007. Artist camille henrot debuts a clothing collaboration with. Mar 14, 2018 frenchborn, new yorkbased artist camille henrot works in many different mediums. In her short film grosse fatigue, visuals mined from the smithsonians archives flit around in web browser. A 20 fellowship at the smithsonian resulted in her film grosse fatigue, for which she. Camille henrots compelling installations invite you to play your part. Frenchborn, new yorkbased artist camille henrot works in many different mediums. The video makes use of themes such as insanity, madness, euphoria, and information overload. Encyclopedic and cosmological are two adjectives often used to describe what are arguably her two most famous pieces to date.
Mariam rahmani on the pleasures and disappointments of camille henrots. Camille henrot grosse fatigue, 20 voice over in the beginning there was no earth, no water nothing. Henrot has described film as her favorite medium, the one that most closely resembles life. In her work, camille henrot has engaged subjects and inspirations as diverse as ethnographic film, the zoetrope a prefilm animation device from the 19th century that produces the illusion of motion, telephone hotlines, and ikebana the japanese art of flower arranging. In 2012, when camille henrot was researching grosse fatigueher acclaimed minute video about the history of the universe, the nature of myth, and the. Henrot references literature, mythology, cinema, and anthropology to reconsider the typologies of objects and established systems of knowledge. The work was presented during the venice biennale, upon the invitation of curator massimiliano gioni. Indeed, the fatigue is grosse, or hugely weighty, she who has condemned herself to carrying the weight of the world. He was a huge inspiration for grosse fatigue, because he introduced a type of narration that is somehow a superstructure a story that contains many different types of knowledge. Future projections, grosse fatigue, toronto film festival and museum of. In this window, we see a video of a laptop playing a film. Jun 02, 2016 camille henrot wants to look at everything. Characterised by what henrot has called a cataloguing psychosis, this vast installation features en masse more than 500 objects encompassing. But arent such dark and lonely burdens meant to become as light, as beautiful and fragile as soap bubbles in the hands of an.
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