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Marguerite Humeau

Marguerite Humeau (b. 1986, FR) lives and works in London, UK. She received her MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2011. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Tate Britain, London, UK; Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, CH; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE; Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; and C L E A R I N G, New York, USA. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the High Line, New York, USA; Château de Versailles, FR; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Victoria and Albert Museum, Sculpture Gallery, London, UK; and FRAC Midi- Pyrénées,Toulouse, FR. Humeau’s solo exhibition, Birth Canal, is currently on display at the New Museum in New York. In 2019, she will have solo exhibitions at the Museion in Bolzano, IT and at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE. Marguerite Humeau’s work is part of the collections of MoMA, New York, USA; Tate Britain, London, UK, Aishti Foundation, Beirut, LB; Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK; Modern Forms, London, UK. Humeau’s work stages the crossing of great distances in time and space, transitions between animal and mineral, and encounters between personal desires and natural forces. The work explores the possibility of communication between worlds and the means by which knowledge is generated in the absence of evidence or through the impossibility of reaching the object of investigation. Humeau weaves factual events into speculative narratives, therefore enabling unknown, invisible, extinct forms of life to erupt in grandiose splendour. Combining prehistory, occult biology and science fiction in a disconcerting spectacle – the works resuscitate the past, conflate subterranean and subcutaneous, all the while updating the quest genre for the information age. In her artistic practice Marguerite Humeau traverses different fields such as paleontology, media theory, and biology to find a basis for her interdisciplinary works. To create works the artist systemically mixes scientific facts, conspiracy theories, and artistic speculations. Humeau narrates fictional events such as the re-emergence of extinct, prehistoric creatures or otherworldly beings etc. For her exhibition, within the framework of the Future Generation Art Prize, Humeau prepared a project which is speaking the language of future archeology or alternative history. The new project continues the themes raised last year at the personal museum exhibition Birth Canal in the United States. The artist carries unscaled ambition, for the first time in her practice connecting sound and drawing. She uses sound and drawing to connect both the past and the future, and the sky with the earth. Due to the connection of visual and sound sensations, the work creates new knowledge and reorients one’s understanding of the world around.
Marguerite Humeau (b. 1986, FR) lives and works in London, UK. She received her MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2011. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Tate Britain, London, UK; Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, CH; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE; Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; and C L E A R I N G, New York, USA. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the High Line, New York, USA; Château de Versailles, FR; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Victoria and Albert Museum, Sculpture Gallery, London, UK; and FRAC Midi- Pyrénées,Toulouse, FR. Humeau’s solo exhibition, Birth Canal, is currently on display at the New Museum in New York. In 2019, she will have solo exhibitions at the Museion in Bolzano, IT and at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE. Marguerite Humeau’s work is part of the collections of MoMA, New York, USA; Tate Britain, London, UK, Aishti Foundation, Beirut, LB; Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK; Modern Forms, London, UK. Humeau’s work stages the crossing of great distances in time and space, transitions between animal and mineral, and encounters between personal desires and natural forces. The work explores the possibility of communication between worlds and the means by which knowledge is generated in the absence of evidence or through the impossibility of reaching the object of investigation. Humeau weaves factual events into speculative narratives, therefore enabling unknown, invisible, extinct forms of life to erupt in grandiose splendour. Combining prehistory, occult biology and science fiction in a disconcerting spectacle – the works resuscitate the past, conflate subterranean and subcutaneous, all the while updating the quest genre for the information age. In her artistic practice Marguerite Humeau traverses different fields such as paleontology, media theory, and biology to find a basis for her interdisciplinary works. To create works the artist systemically mixes scientific facts, conspiracy theories, and artistic speculations. Humeau narrates fictional events such as the re-emergence of extinct, prehistoric creatures or otherworldly beings etc. For her exhibition, within the framework of the Future Generation Art Prize, Humeau prepared a project which is speaking the language of future archeology or alternative history. The new project continues the themes raised last year at the personal museum exhibition Birth Canal in the United States. The artist carries unscaled ambition, for the first time in her practice connecting sound and drawing. She uses sound and drawing to connect both the past and the future, and the sky with the earth. Due to the connection of visual and sound sensations, the work creates new knowledge and reorients one’s understanding of the world around.