This painting was produced for the exhibition Jus d’Orange at Fondazione ICA Milano in 2023. The exhibition presented a selection of new paintings by Camille Henrot inspired by Estelle Hoy’s texts and vice versa, the result of over five hundred images and thousands of messages that the artists, united by deep friendship, have exchanged via WhatsApp, Instagram, shared Google Docs, voice messages, and live conversations since late 2021.

The collaboration takes as its starting point Estelle Hoy’s text Venetian Waters of Jus d’Orange, inspired by the circumstance of a friend of the artist witnessing the collapse of the roof of her home after numerous sacrifices made over the years to buy it. The themes of failure and hope, represented by the cultivation of an orange grove on the ruins of the destroyed house, inspired Henrot to create a series of watercolours and paintings on canvas, including Lady Lazarus, and constitute the starting point of an uninterrupted dialogue between the two artists. From literature they read to lived experiences, from exhibitions visited to psychoanalytic theories, from current social issues to dreams and personal aspirations, Camille Henrot and Estelle Hoy create an intimate journey.