Artist: Camille Henrot

For her first public exhibition in New York City, Camille Henrot introduces a group of sculptures of dogs – for her, symbols of domesticated life – that bring handcrafted delight to the park’s entrance.

The collection of dogs on leashes marks a new outdoor chapter in Henrot’s recent body of work that explores how etiquette, order, and societal rules shape the imagination and inventiveness of young life. Each dog has its own unique personality and materiality, mirroring the wide variety of shapes and sizes of canine companions she meets across her own Upper West Side neighborhood. In painting, sculpture, film, drawing, and more, Camille Henrot tries to understand the world, or to at least respect its nonsense. Interested at once in banal and quotidian phenomena and the most far-reaching societal structures, Henrot follows the stories that we tell, the structures we impose to create order, and the symbols we invent to approximate shared understanding.

Camille Henrot is curated by Public Art Fund Senior Curator Melanie Kress.