Press Release
The exhibition features key works from the past decade including a group of new works on paper never before exhibited. Also featured is the first Australian presentation of the immersive room-scale installation The Pale Fox, 2014, a companion piece to the widely exhibited Grosse Fatigue, 2013, for which Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale for most promising young artist. The Pale Fox attempts to explain the origins of the universe, drawing from research she undertook during a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC in 2013.
Henrot often uses humour in her works, for example, in the Interphone series of sculptures that explore our relationship to authority and technology. In these interactive works, she invites visitors to pick up a customised telephone and respond to prompts which offer answers to questions like how to know if your partner is cheating or what to do with an aggressive dog.
