Press Release
Middelheim Museum is pleased to present Wet Job, the first solo exhibition by artist Camille Henrot (°1978) in Belgium. The exhibition is the first of its kind to focus on the artist’s practice in sculpture and brings together close to 40 works produced over the last decade in an expansive outdoor setting. In the context of this exhibition, Wet Job has multiple and evolving meanings: it refers to the labor of breastfeeding and breast pumping (think ‘wet nurse’) at the same time as it evokes the end of life (‘wet work’), the fluidity of identity, and the sometimes messy nature of human relations. It is particularly striking to consider the artist's choice to use bronze, one of the most time-honored, durable materials, to capture the fleeting impermanence of human experience.
