Camille Norment: Untitled (heliotrope)

Camille Norment's handwoven brass sculptural and sound installation, evoking both pipe organ and raft, explores migration and diasporic displacement on the Studio Museum's terrace staircase.

Why go

Norment hand-weaves the brass structure herself, and the work engages "social heliotropism"—the search for growth and care amid hardship—as a framework for understanding contemporary and historical migration patterns, with the installation's placement along a south-facing passageway deepening its conceptual resonance.

What to expect

A site-specific sculptural and sound installation on the terrace staircase featuring brass tubes of varying lengths and diameters framed by handwoven brass wires, positioned to engage with directional migratory patterns and the search for harmony amid dissonance.

Things to know

• Handwoven by the artist herself using brass wires and tubes of varying lengths and diameters.
• Commissioned as a site-informed work for the Studio Museum's terrace staircase.
• Norment represented Norway at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015.
• Artist's practice is rooted in sound but extends across drawing, installation, performance, sculpture, and video.
• Organized by former Senior Curatorial Assistant Habiba Hopson.
• Supported by the Studio Museum's Acquisition Committee and the Norwegian Consulate General in New York.