WET JOB @middelheimmuseum on view until October 16 2022 “Though both are marked by individual shame and guilt, Henrot positions climate grief and postpartum depression as crises of collective and political responsibility – a concern that takes on added urgency in the green environment of Middelheim Museum. In Het Huis pavilion, Overlapping Figures (2011) and 3,2,1... (2021), produced ten years apart, involve similar processes of sculpture-making. Both feature the remnants of their own manufacture: hammers, bricks, wooden boards, pieces of plaster, boxes, brushes and detritus of other destroyed works. The bronze worm-like forms of Overlapping Figures seem to simultaneously escape and recoil, while the larger-than-life mother crow of 3,2,1... sheds a tear at the disordered nest it has built for itself. Henrot acknowledges that the process of creation automatically implies the generation of waste. The title of the work 3,2,1... points to the psychological state of regression that accompanies motherhood as well as to the emergency of the climate crisis.” Photos : Ans Brys Text : Léa Trudel