camille henrot
interview by DONATIEN GRAU
portrait by MARLENE MARINO
paris remains a city
for the art of conversation
and for confrontation
DONATIEN GRAU — You’re a French artist who decided six years ago to live between Paris and New York. How do you see Paris?
CAMILLE HENROT — Paris is my town. It’s an integral part of my identity. In a way, I feel that I’m always in Paris and, at the same time, always seeing Paris and my Parisian identity from the outside. Whenever I’m in the United States, being French and hailing from Paris is how others see me, like the clue to a riddle. I’m a Parisian first, a woman second, and an artist third. That’s how my identity gets simplified. The specificity of what I am at this moment — after 20 years of work — ends up falling into a sort of…