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Prehistoric Collections . Camille Henrot

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Camille Henrot covers the pages of a book she bought on the Internet in the 1950s, devoted to prehistoric collections unearthed by excavations in Algeria.
On top of the flints, spheroids, tools and weapons - the everyday objects of a vanished civilisation - she pastes our domestic objects: remote controls, medicines, instructions, plastic bags, green plants, records, mobile phones, erotic images...


"The pages are filled with seashells, erect nipples, spanners, paintbrushes, trees, postcards... This is not a litany of objects without order or hierarchy. Rather, it's the invention of a place where bits and pieces of humanity become ornamental figures of yesterday and today. Motifs run from page to page, as if on the walls of a grotesque fresco that is both universal and very intimate, where the artist's personal belongings, in his bedroom or studio, and the products of primitive humanity intertwine. All these products become grotesque - certainly not ridiculous or frightening; on the contrary, they take on that aspect that is both near and far, which allows us to contemplate the archaic as if it were still current, and the current as if it were already archaic." (extract from the preface by Tristan Garcia)


"In addition to my obsession with collecting objects, this project was prompted by a book I bought on ebay, also entitled Collections préhistoriques, about Algerian prehistory. The history of this book is quite emblematic of the issue of collecting and circulating

Prehistoric Collections . Camille Henrot


Preface: Tristan Garcia
122 colour reproductions
144 pages
21 × 27 × 1.7 cm
Full cloth hardback cover with stamping, stamping on edge
Published on 01/01/2016
ISBN: 978-2-917217-58-0
Graphic designer: Simon Dara

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2023-07-07

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