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In the Veins
Camille Henrot

  • Video installation
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LUMA Arles is proud to present the European premiere of In the Veins, a major new film by Camille Henrot, co-produced by LUMA. Conceived as an immersive moving-image work, the film delves into the invisible circulations that shape human experience, emotions, beliefs, desires, and inherited narratives that flow through individuals and across generations. Henrot approaches these forces as both intimate and systemic, revealing how inner lives are inseparable from the social, cultural, and symbolic structures that surround them.

At its core, In the Veins explores the invisible circulations that shape human experience, such as emotions, beliefs, and inherited narratives that pass between generations and bind individuals to larger systems of meaning. Henrot reflects on tenderness and care as fundamental yet increasingly fragile conditions, particularly in our relationships with children and the animal world. Though omnipresent in the symbolic universe of childhood, animals progressively disappear from adult life, mirroring a broader estrangement from nature and revealing a profound cultural dissonance. Set against the inescapable horizon of the climate crisis, the work confronts the emotional complexity of raising children in a time marked by uncertainty, grief, and anticipation.

Drawing on anthropology, psychology, and ecology, Henrot approaches care and nature as cyclical rather than linear processes, challenging dominant narratives of progress and control. The film unfolds as a sensorial and reflective space in which vulnerability and interdependence emerge as essential conditions of existence.

This major new film marks a significant development in Henrot’s practice and affirms LUMA Arles’s role as a space for experimentation and production, accompanying artists in creating works that help us navigate and reimagine our shared future.

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From 1 May 2026 to 10 January 2027
The Tower, Glassroom, Level -2
COLOUR_STILL_V1_C0419_3 - 2112 x 1188
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© ADAGP Camille Henrot. Courtesy of the artist, Mennour and Hauser & Wirth.
© ADAGP Camille Henrot. Courtesy of the artist, Mennour and Hauser & Wirth.
Camille Henrot - 2569 x 3565

Camille Henrot

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Camille Henrot (born 1978, France) is recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary art today. Over the past twenty years, she has developed a critically acclaimed practice, encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and film. Inspired by literature, second-hand marketplaces, poetry, cartoons, social media, self-help, and the banality of everyday life, Henrot’s works capture the complexity of living as both private individuals and global citizens in an increasingly connected and over-stimulated world.

In 2013, Henrot received widespread critical acclaim for her film Grosse Fatigue, made during a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution and awarded the Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. The film was recently ranked #7 by ARTnews in a list of the 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century. Henrot elaborated ideas from Grosse Fatigue to conceive her acclaimed 2014 installation The Pale Fox at Chisenhale Gallery in London, which has since toured to multiple collaborating venues. In 2017, Henrot was given carte blanche at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where she presented the major exhibition Days Are Dogs.

Henrot is the recipient of the 2014 Nam June Paik Award and the 2015 Edvard Munch Award, and has participated in the Lyon, Berlin, Sydney and Liverpool Biennials, among others. Henrot has had numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, including the New Museum, New York; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Fondazione Memmo, Rome; and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan, among others. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Guggenheim, the Centre Pompidou, and the National Gallery of Victoria, among others.

In 2026, Henrot will premiere her new film In The Veins at the New Museum, New York and LUMA, Arles. She will also present a major performative survey exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary, and will debut her first theatrical piece Commedia dell’Arte at the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR Festival, a co-commission between Performa, Aspen Art Museum and LYRA Art Foundation. Henrot’s first public commission in New York City with Public Art Fund will also be unveiled in September, remaining on view in Central Park until August 2027.