florence law-henocq

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about 

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florence law-henocq is an artist and independent curator. she lives and works in north london, uk. 

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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. ​​

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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. ​​

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education

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2019-23 - ba [hons] fine art, central saint martins 

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contact

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email:  flr.lwhq@gmail.com 

instagram:  @florencelawhenocq 

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projects / curatorial 

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'the self in situ', october 11-19, 2025, riva studios gallery, hackney, london, uk 

'field notes', october 19-25, 2024, riva studios gallery, hackney, london, uk

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works

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