ART
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
all artwork copyright CAMILLE HENROT
courtesy of the artist and kamel mennour
paris/london, copyright ADAGP, paris 2020
going beyond the conventional bouquet, the ephemeral flower sculptures of camille henrot borrow from the japanese ikebana tradition: intimate rituals celebrating life, beauty, and books.
OLIVIER ZAHM — I keep coming back to your flower installations. What attracted you to flowers?
CAMILLE HENROT — A mix of personal circumstances and chance. I was moving to New York. All the stuff I’d decided to move with me, for my life and the studio, was in a container that got blocked by customs for a year. So, I didn’t have my books. It was also a time when I was accumulating a lot of objects on eBay, and I found this really beautiful book about Sogetsu ikebana from the 1960s. It was the perfect expression of live beauty — the…