Marguerite Humeau

5 Apr-14 May 2023

Overview

Marguerite Humeau will create an immersive installation for her first exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey. Incorporating sculpture, sound and moving image, the work explores themes of connectivity and the collective as a response to the impending, self-inflicted extinction of the human species.

Drawing on a new body of research investigating alternative social structures and architectural forms found in the natural world, and informed by the germinal text ‘The Soul of the White Ant’ (1936) by Eugène Marais, Humeau posits that unconventional frameworks found in organic life could offer new possibilities for existing in an age of imminent disaster.

Marguerite Humeau

Ranging from prehistory to imagined future worlds, Marguerite Humeau spans great distances in space and time in her pursuit of the mysteries of human existence. She breathes life into lost things, whether they be lifeforms that have become extinct or ideas that have disappeared from our mental landscapes. Filling gaps in knowledge with speculation and imagined scenarios, her aim is to create new mythologies for our contemporary era.

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