About The Work
Inspired by “Jean qui rit, Jean qui pleure” (literally, “Jean who laughs, Jean who cries”), a popular figure with a long tradition in France who embodies the all-too-human ability for sudden and drastic mood swings, “Okay Not Okay” (2020) is a response to the ubiquitous platitude: How are you? One does not usually pose the question out of any real curiosity for another’s well-being; rather, the inquiry functions as a polite, friendly greeting that has become an automatic reflex and thus essentially devoid of sincerity or meaning. For “Texte zur Kunst,” Camille Henrot has created these two gold-plated brass pendants to function as a sort of nonverbal answer to the over-asked question, letting those around you know your mood and indicating whether or not they should risk asking you at all.
About Camille Henrot
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Camille Henrot's Really Great Year
- Interviews & Features: The Female Gaze: Women Artists on the Male and Female Form
- Interviews & Features: Female forms - shape making among great women artists
- Interviews & Features: Camille Henrot wows Frieze LA
- Interviews & Features: MOCA LA Director Klaus Biesenbach on his hit Zoom studio visits and the Artspace artist editions that resulted from them
24k gold-plated brass
1.02 x 0.71 in
2.6 x 1.8 cm
Numbered necklace, numbered and signed certificate.
About The Work
Inspired by “Jean qui rit, Jean qui pleure” (literally, “Jean who laughs, Jean who cries”), a popular figure with a long tradition in France who embodies the all-too-human ability for sudden and drastic mood swings, “Okay Not Okay” (2020) is a response to the ubiquitous platitude: How are you? One does not usually pose the question out of any real curiosity for another’s well-being; rather, the inquiry functions as a polite, friendly greeting that has become an automatic reflex and thus essentially devoid of sincerity or meaning. For “Texte zur Kunst,” Camille Henrot has created these two gold-plated brass pendants to function as a sort of nonverbal answer to the over-asked question, letting those around you know your mood and indicating whether or not they should risk asking you at all.
About Camille Henrot
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Camille Henrot's Really Great Year
- Interviews & Features: The Female Gaze: Women Artists on the Male and Female Form
- Interviews & Features: Female forms - shape making among great women artists
- Interviews & Features: Camille Henrot wows Frieze LA
- Interviews & Features: MOCA LA Director Klaus Biesenbach on his hit Zoom studio visits and the Artspace artist editions that resulted from them
Edition of 30 + 10 A.P. Handmade by Fonderia Nolana, Italy.
- The quoted dimensions are for each pendant.
- Ships in 10 to 14 business days from Germany.
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