Taking multiple forms, from films and sculptures to installations Camille Henrot’s work challenges the material aspect of our culture from an anthropological point of view. For her series Objets augmentés, ordinary objects found on eBay or on the ‘thieves’ market’ (Belleville, Paris) were coated in earth and tar until they lost their form and function. Henrot’s intervention marks a transition from the recognisable to the shapeless. It also indicates a change in status: from the anonymity of mass production, the object is transformed into a unique object. Despite their equivocal temporality and geography, these objects are also a reference to colonialism. Beyond the anthropological dimension, the coated objects also thematise mass production, underpaid labour, and global distribution networks.