florence law-henocq

 

artist—independent curator 

 

biography—florence law-henocq is an artist and independent curator. she lives and works in north london, uk. florence law-henocq’s artistic and curatorial practices engages with art, anthropology and radical human ecology. since 2023, florence law-henocq has implemented, coordinated and curated several london-based group exhibitions. 

 

research and practice—my practice is interdisciplinary, multimedia and multimodal examining the boundaries and convergencies between art and science. i experiment new dialogues and collaborations between art, anthropology and radical human ecology. i aim to reconceptualise and rematerialise the interactions and interdependencies between humans, nature and technology. my work aims to critically evaluate how we can understand radical human ecology in new ways through the practice, processes, visual codes and conventions of contemporary art. my practice aims to critically engage with making art and modes of research: practice, processes and methodologies, modes of reference and representation; form, aesthetics, object and meaning, modes of embodiment and enacted practice: multifaceted ways of being and knowing, art as social process and modes of engagement and infrastructures of art.—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 experience and condition.—i present both dualistic sets of data, technical studies and experimentation, 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. 

 

projects and curatorial—the self in situ, october 11-19, 2025: co-curated by florence law-henocq, this exhibition critically examines the ongoing dialogue between ‘the self’ and ‘site’, questions of ontology, epistemology, method and praxis. it re-thinks how we can understand the inter-relationship between identity and place in new ways through the practice, processes, visual codes and conventions of contemporary art. it critically engages with key sites of knowledge making; in the field, in the studio, in the lab, the thesis and the exhibition for new meanings and interpretations. the exhibition aims to challenge and expand fixed identity, highlighting how the self is informed by nature and society, culture and ecology.—field notes, october 19-25, 2024: co-curated by florence law-henocq, this exhibition is inter-disciplinary, multi-media, multi-modal examining new dialogues and collaborations between art and ecology, focusing on different spatialities, localities and temporalities. it aims to re-conceptrualise and re-materialise human, nature and technology inter-relations. 

 

flr.lwhq@gmail.com—@florencelawhenocq