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Don’t: Camille Henrot review
The Perimeter, LondonTesticles have faces and a fox licks a phallus as the French artist mixes online anxiety, family life and saucy erotica in works charged with meaning
TL;DR
- Camille Henrot's new exhibition 'Don't' focuses on introspection and the mundane, moving away from her previous large-scale works.
- The show includes two bodies of work: 'Dos and Don'ts,' a series of layered paintings blending digital and analogue elements, and drawings featuring mythical beasts and explicit erotic scenes.
- The paintings explore societal rules and personal anxieties through collaged elements like screenshots, etiquette guides, personal photos, and bills.
- The drawings present a surreal sexual psychodrama, an unapologetic glimpse into private desires and physical abandon.
- Henrot's latest work is characterized as a personal excavation of the everyday, examining life's basic, mundane, and erotic aspects.