Florence Law-Henocq
Biography:
Florence Law-Henocq is an artist and independent curator who lives and works in North London, UK. Her artistic and curatorial practices engages with contemporary art, anthropology, and ecology. Since 2023, she has implemented, coordinated and curated several London-based exhibitions. In 2026, she founded 39-01. 39-01 is an independent pop-up project space and gallery dedicated to contemporary art, anthropology, and ecology. Through a nomadic exhibition program, it creates contexts for dialogue across disciplines and geographies. The gallery critically engages with: (1) making art and 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: multifaceted ways of being and knowing, (4) art as social process, modes of engagement and infrastructures of art.
Research and Practice:
My practice is interdisciplinary, multimedia, and multimodal, examining the boundaries and convergencies between art and science. I explore new dialogues and collaborations between contemporary art, anthropology, and ecology. Through this work, I aim to reconceptualise and rematerialise the interactions and interdependencies between humans, nature and technology.
My work aims to critically evaluate how radical human ecology can be understood in new ways through the practice, processes, visual codes and conventions of contemporary art. I critically rethink contexts and conditions, as well as the sites and systems of production and exchange. I test the opportunities and constraints of both field-based and studio-based research. I examine nature through the lens of human experience, memory and imagination. I also explore the benefits and limitations of photography and painting as media through which to mediate, simulate, and augment experiences and knowledge of nature.
First, I examine field-based practice, multi-sited ethnography as a method of research. I explore photography as a medium to examine nature through a detached, empirical, objective, and structured lens. The resulting work functions as a description of external realities, engaging with the physical conditions and material states of the world. Second, I examine studio-based practice and auto-ethnography as a method of research. I explore painting as a medium for examining nature through a self-reflexive, theoretical, and experimental lens. The resulting work functions as an analysis of internal experiences, engaging with the psychological and philosophical dimensions of human experience and the human condition.
I present dualistic datasets, technical studies, and experimental outcomes as a mixed-method installation that mediates between and traverses artistic and scientific theoretical and methodological frameworks. Through this approach, I examine exhibition as an aesthetic inquiry and curation as a mediating activity. The resulting work aims to simulate new and productive dialogues about ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), methodology, praxis, and the cognitive function of art.
Projects and Curatorial:
The Self In Situ, October 11-19, 2025. Hackney, UK.
Field Notes, October 18-25, 2024. Hackney, UK.
Contact:
Email: flr.lwhq@gmail.com
Instagram: @florencelawhenocq, @3901.gallery
Works: