“A number of things” an exhibition by Camille Henrot opens in New York, Houser & Wirth on the 30th of a January until 12th of April.

New York...This January, Camille Henrot will present ‘A Number of Things,’ her first major exhibition with Hauser& Wirth in New York City. Evoking children’s developmental tools, shoes, distorted graphs and counting devices,new large-scale bronze sculptures from the artist’s ‘Abacus’ series (2024)—presented alongside recent smaller-scaled works—address the friction between a nascent sense of imagination and society’s systems of signs. Theexhibition will also feature vibrant new paintings from Henrot’s ongoing ‘Dos and Don’ts’ series. Initiated in 2021,this series combines printing, painting and collage techniques with excerpts from etiquette books and computerdesktop screenshots to serve as palimpsests for play with color, gesture, texture and trompe l’oeil. The artworkson view will emerge from a site-specific flooring intervention conceived and designed by Henrot in collaborationwith Charlap Hyman & Herrero. ‘A Number of Things’ vivaciously sets the stage for the arbitrary nature of humanbehavior to circulate freely between rule and exception.

All images:Camille Henrot© Camille HenrotCourtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth