Florence Law-Henocq
ABOUT
Florence Law-Henocq is an artist and independent curator. She lives and works in north London.
My practice is inter-disciplinary, multi-media and multi-modal examining the boundaries and convergencies between art and science. I experiment new dialogues and collaborations between art, ecology and anthropology. I aim to re-conceptualise and re-materialise the interactions and interdependencies between humans, nature and technology. My work aims to critically evaluate how we can understand radical ecology [human-nature inter-relations] in new ways through the practice, processes, visual codes and conventions of contemporary art. My practice aims to critically engage with [1] modes of research: practice, processes and methodologies, [2] modes of reference and representation: form, aesthetics, object and meaning, [3] modes of embodiment and enacted practice, [4] modes of engagement and curatorial practice.
I critically re-think contexts and conditions, sites and systems of practice and exhibition. I test the opportunities and constraints of field-based and studio-based research. I aim to compare how different localities [place], spatialities [space] and temporalities [time] elicit different modes of representation. I examine nature through the lens of human experience, memory and imagination. I test the benefits and limitations of photography and painting to mediate, simulate and augment an experience and knowledge of nature. First, I test field-based practice, multi-sited ethnography. I test photography as a medium to examine nature through a detached, empirical, objective, structured lens. The work is a description of external realities, the physical state of the world. Second, I test studio-based practice, auto-ethnography. I test painting as a medium to examine nature through a self-reflexive, theoretical, experimental lens. The work is an analysis of internal experiences, the psychological, philosophical aspects of the human condition. I present both dualistic sets of data as a mixed-method installation to mediate and transverse artistic and scientific theoretical and methodological frameworks. I test exhibition as aesthetic inquiry and curation as mediating activity. The work aims to simulate new and productive dialogues about ontology [ways of being], epistemology [ways of knowing], method, praxis and the cognitive function of art.
EXHIBITIONS
'Field Notes', October 19-25, 2024, RIVA Studios Gallery, Hackney, London
'The Self In Situ', October 11-19, 2025, RIVA Studios Gallery, Hackney, London
EDUCATION
2019-23 - BA [Hons] Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
CONTACT
@florencelawhenocq