Camille Henrot: The Pale Fox, Chisenhale Gallery - exhibition review

Camille Henrot has quietly become one of the world’s most in-demand artists. The Paris-born artist won the Venice Biennale’s Silver Lion last year and has now been shortlisted for the Hugo Boss prize, the Guggenheim’s equivalent to the Turner Prize. She also has a forthcoming show at New York’s coolest gallery, the New Museum.

Her first UK solo show is intriguing and impressive. Henrot has painted the Chisenhale a deep and enveloping ultramarine blue and installed a carpet of the same colour. The installation is a collision of order and chaos. An elegant aluminium shelf runs around the gallery, both a sinuous sculpture in itself and a display system, around which she places objects which veer from Henrot’s abstract but bodily bronzes to her swift, feathery drawings, found objects and sundry detritus: in one corner, it’s as if the contents of her bedroom are shoved on the shelf.

There’s method in this madness: the show is organised around the four points of the compass, each representing one of the four elements. Henrot is grappling with the stuff around us, trying to make sense of the universe and her own private world, and it’s enjoyable to join her on that journey.

Until April 13 (020 8981 4518, chisenhale.org.uk)