Camille Henrot

Is today tomorrow? It’s the question lending cryptic title and conceptual thread to the mixed media and existential musings of contemporary French artist Camille Henrot, whose back catalogue is soon to display at the National Gallery of Victoria.

In light of Covid-19’s continuum of disease and disruption, the artist’s rhetorical ask seems weighted with anxiety and an abdication to the unrelenting sameness of life. But, when viewed through the prism of today’s unprecedented mass protests, it perhaps portends a different future.

All interpretation is open until a mutually suitable time must arrange for an interview with the critically feted, forty-something artist who is currently based in Berlin undertaking a residency at Callie’s, the socalled “laboratory for expansive thinking” in a former 19th-century machine factory. Ensconced in one of the complex’s studios, Henrot