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The back cover of the book Milkyways by Camille Henrot, shown against a white background. The cream-colored cover features a descriptive blurb in black text, along with a barcode and ISBN.
A pale yellow paperback book titled Milkyways by Camille Henrot is shown at an angle on a white background. The cover features a simple black line drawing of an abstract, amorphous figure. The title and author's name are also printed on the spine, and the publisher's logo, Hatje Cantz, is at the bottom of the cover.
An open book on a white surface shows a two-page spread. The left page is titled (Pro)Creation and its Myths, with a collage artwork below. The artwork has a blue figure overlaid with vertical strips of textured paper in pink and brown. The caption reads Dos and Don'ts – My Bio, 2021. The right page features printed text discussing creation and birth, with the page number 19 at the bottom.
A photograph of an open book on a white surface. The left page features the title Milk: On Debt and a stylized painting of two breasts by Loie Hollowell. The right page contains an essay about mother's milk.
An open book showing pages 98 and 99. The left page has a column of text about motherhood. The right page displays a color photograph of a tall, abstract bronze sculpture standing in a garden with green bushes and white flowers. The caption reads, Mon corps de femme, 2019, and Mother of Tears.
Two art books by Camille Henrot are displayed side-by-side on a white background. The larger book on the left, titled Mother Tongue in an elegant black script, has a grey textured cover with a black-and-white image. The smaller book on the right, titled Milkyways, has a cream cover with a simple black line drawing of a hunched-over figure.
A page from a book with two columns. The left column shows a photograph of a sculpture under the title Please Do Not Touch. The image is a close-up of a textured, greenish-blue vertical form entwined with a thick, bumpy, golden-brown ring. A caption below reads: Every Goodbye (detail), 2019. The right column contains several paragraphs of text discussing preverbal understanding in babies and its relation to art. The page number 37 is in the bottom right corner.
A two-page spread from a book. The left page features an abstract painting titled Words of Mouth, 2020, showing a distorted, fleshy orange form on a bright red background. The right page has a block of text above a photograph of a person resting their head on a large, abstract bronze sculpture on a grassy lawn. The caption reads Mauro and Derelitta, 2016, at Middelheim Museum, 2022.
A two-page spread from a book. The left page has a column of text about motherhood and caregiving. The right page features a minimalist line drawing of a pregnant person's profile in brown ink. A face looks down toward a pregnant belly, which contains a simple sketch of a fetus. A plant with vibrant green leaves grows up alongside the belly. Below the drawing is the title, I Need You, 2020.
The pale yellow cover of the book Milkyways by Camille Henrot, featuring a minimalist black line drawing of a motherly figure bent over a child.
The cover of Milkyways by Camille Henrot, featuring a minimalist black ink drawing of a mother and child on a pale yellow background.
Milkyways
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Author: Camille Henrot
By (artist): Camille Henrot
Designed by: Neil Holt
June 2023, 132 Pages, 65 Photos
Paperback with Flaps
122mm x 190mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5534-4

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de


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Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the process of creation in both art-making and life. Each chapter delivers a cosmos of references in literature, cartoons, art history, psychoanalysis, and more—from ancient maternity myths to modern maternity wards; from Marcel Proust to Maggie Nelson to Hélène Cixous. Alongside illustrations of the artist's work in painting, drawing, and sculpture, Henrot's perspectives in writing oscillate freely between the personal and the societal, the obvious and the more complex, the visceral and the utterly mundane.

Milkyways was originally conceived for Republik magazine on invitation by Antje Stahl. Written with Jacob Bromberg, Antje Stahl, and Léa Trudel.

CAMILLE HENROT (*1978, Paris) is one of the most influential voices in contemporary art today, with a practice encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and film. Inspired by references from literature, psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology and the banality of everyday life, she questions what it means to be both a private individual and a global subject in an increasingly connected and over-stimulated world. Henrot has had numerous solo exhibitions worldwide in venues including Middelheim Museum, Antwerp; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; New Museum, New York; and Art Sonje Center, Seoul. She lives and works in New York City.
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