Camille Henrot
(born in Paris 1978)
Celui qui a faim, 2019, bronze, ex. 1/8 + 4 A. P., 45 x 45 x 100 cm
Provenance:
König Galerie, Berlin
Private Collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 2021)
Exhibited:
Hannover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Camille Henrot I Mother Tongue, 2021
The French sculptor Camille Henrot, who lives in New York, creates works ranging from installations and sculptures to drawings and video art. In 2013, she won the Silver Lion for Best Young Artist at the Venice Biennale. The works in Camille Henrot’s 2021 exhibition ‘Mother Tongue’ at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover are inspired by the human need for connection and separation, and by the mouth as a place of expression and consumption.
With Celui qui a faim the artist focuses in particular on the act of breastfeeding. The idea that a mother provides the nutritional foundation for a newborn through her breast milk, whilst at the same time experiencing an unquenchable hunger herself due to the production of that milk, prompted her to give form to this hunger. More generally, she explores the themes of dependence and responsibility within the mother-child relationship.
„I had never before experienced hunger like I did while I was breastfeeding, and I started to think that hunger was its own person – that it had a body and a face. So the sculpture comes from that idea.”
Camille Henrot
Specialist: Joëlle Romba
(born in Paris 1978)
Celui qui a faim, 2019, bronze, ex. 1/8 + 4 A. P., 45 x 45 x 100 cm
Provenance:
König Galerie, Berlin
Private Collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 2021)
Exhibited:
Hannover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Camille Henrot I Mother Tongue, 2021
The French sculptor Camille Henrot, who lives in New York, creates works ranging from installations and sculptures to drawings and video art. In 2013, she won the Silver Lion for Best Young Artist at the Venice Biennale. The works in Camille Henrot’s 2021 exhibition ‘Mother Tongue’ at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover are inspired by the human need for connection and separation, and by the mouth as a place of expression and consumption.
With Celui qui a faim the artist focuses in particular on the act of breastfeeding. The idea that a mother provides the nutritional foundation for a newborn through her breast milk, whilst at the same time experiencing an unquenchable hunger herself due to the production of that milk, prompted her to give form to this hunger. More generally, she explores the themes of dependence and responsibility within the mother-child relationship.
„I had never before experienced hunger like I did while I was breastfeeding, and I started to think that hunger was its own person – that it had a body and a face. So the sculpture comes from that idea.”
Camille Henrot
Specialist: Joëlle Romba
