Heterotopia: A Conversation Between Camille Henrot and Dean Kissick

On the occasion of an exhibition of new work, “Sweet Days of Discipline,” at the Lokremise museum in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Camille Henrot welcomes the critic Dean Kissick into her New York studio for a wide-ranging conversation about art, authority, failure and the “counterfactual” space of childhood.
“A lot of the work has to do with a sense of failure and mistake and how to use objects and how to proceed with them-looking at the way a toddler would try to force a shape into the wrong hole … there’s no reason to think about things with just one solution. There are always multiple solutions.”-Henrot
Camille Henrot draws on numerous references from literature, psychoanalysis, cartoons, poetry, social media, and the banality of everyday life. Her sculptural, painterly and cinematic work looks at dynamics of human dependency, individual responsibility and societal concerns in an increasingly connected and over-stimulated world.
Dean Kissick is a writer and lives in New York. He is a contributing editor of Spike Art Magazine and also hosts the Seaport Talks, a monthly series of conversation with critics at the bar T.J. Byrnes.
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"In the absence of any parental pressure to study hard (her father is an investment banker; her mother, an artist and engraver . . . ."
W Magazine, 8 May 2014

[@londonguyinstockholm]

Fascinating! Thank you for introducing me to this artist.

[@trails3597]

Lets talk about structure ... as he turns over a page of his notes!🔲🔳◾▪Her art is awesome!

[@rydeck239]

noguchi museum gonna be on high alert now, thanks a lot dean

[@andrewjohn4876]

It’s more interesting when artists come up with original titles and themes.

[@dave2071]

Not a critic