Artist Walkthrough: Camille Henrot & Agustín Fuentes on ‘Camille Henrot. A Number of Things’

On the occasion of ‘Camille Henrot. A Number of Things,’ the artist’s first major exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York City, the 22nd Street location hosted a walkthrough with artist Camille Henrot, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, Agustín Fuentes and Curatorial Director at Hauser & Wirth, Alexis Lowry. ‘A Number of Things’ evokes children’s developmental tools, shoes, distorted graphs and counting devices, in new large-scale bronze sculptures from the artist’s ‘Abacus’ series (2024)—presented alongside recent smaller scaled works—addressing the friction between a nascent sense of imagination and society’s systems of signs. The exhibition also features vibrant new paintings from Henrot’s ongoing ‘Dos and Don’ts’ series which combines printing, painting and collage techniques with excerpts from etiquette books and computer desktop screenshots to serve as palimpsests for play with color, gesture, texture and trompe l’oeil. The artworks on view emerge from a site-specific flooring intervention conceived and designed by Henrot in collaboration with Charlap Hyman & Herrero. ‘A Number of Things’ vivaciously sets the stage for the arbitrary nature of human behavior to circulate freely between rule and exception. ‘A Number of Things’ is on view through 12 April. – Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca, Paris and Basel. – Subscribe to Hauser & Wirth’s YouTube:    / @hauserwirth   Sign up to Hauser & Wirth’s Newsletter: hauserwirth.com/subscribe Follow Hauser & Wirth on:   / hauserwirth     / hauserwirth     / hauserwirth