Camille Henrot’s drawings deal with the external systems that influence the structure of our lives—like politics and religion—with the unconscious internal world of dreams and fantasies. Conventional ideas of dominance and subjugation unravel in Henrot’s depictions of psychically charged or graphically sexual scenes. 
Henrot’s ink and watercolor drawings are inspired by sources ranging from the illustrations of Saul Steinberg to Shunga, a traditional Japanese erotic art. She is also drawn to the fluidity of contemporary Manga cartoons, where male and female, animal and human exist in the same body. Notions of transformation, often into what we both desire and fear, are evidenced in Henrot’s drawings. Animal heads and body parts become human forms that tussle together as pairs or threesomes in sometimes masochistic scenarios.

A major exhibition representing the extensive breadth of Henrot’s work opened last fall at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. There she premiered her 3D film Saturday, the follow up to her critically acclaimed film Grosse Fatigue, for which she was awarded the Silver Lion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. She has held solo exhibitions in institutions that include the New Museum, New York; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. In 2014 she opened the first iteration of her renowned exhibition “The Pale Fox” at Chisenhale Gallery in London. It went on to be exhibited at institutions that include Betonsalon, Paris, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Henrot participated in the 2014 Taipei and Gwangju Biennials, the 2015 Lyon Biennial, and the 2016 Berlin and Sydney Biennales. In 2014 she won the Nam June Paik Award, and in 2015 she was the first recipient of the Edvard Munch Award.