Prehistoric Collections

an artist's book by Camille Henrot ; with a text by Tristan Garcia

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Author(s)

Tristan Garcia

Editor(s)

Camille Henrot

Publication, year

Paris : Manuella Editions, 2015

Scope

144 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.

ISBN

9782917217733

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Based around an out-of-print anthology devoted to prehistoric collections unearthed by archaeological expeditions in Algeria, French artist Camille Henrot’s latest project treats this ethnographic material as motifs of a contemporary grotesque. The scientific document – photographs, diagrams, and captions – becomes part of a layered array incorporating traces of our present age: humans, animals, plants, minerals, and other objects. Freely mixing the pre- and post-historic, archaic and actual, Henrot constructs an exploration of human bodies, information media, and meaning using dated pornography, technological refuse, tools and instruments, signs, and more. Archeology

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Person as subject

Camille Henrot

Keywords

photography

Location

Cabinet 4 - 1: Kunstenaars

Remarks

Incl. Biography and Bibliography.