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Marguerite Humeau

Born in 1986, Cholet, France

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom, Cholet, France

Overview

Marguerite Humeau’s artistic practice is concerned with imagining and ‘prototyping worlds that are invisible or extinct, or parallel to ours. They might exist, but we don’t really know about them.’ The artist’s speculative fictions are formed by uncovering forms and ideas that have been forgotten or lost, that have fallen off the map throughout history. Humeau’s is a practice of seeking to comprehend; ‘[the worlds] are based on mysteries that I am trying to understand. I am extracting real thing...Read more

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Marguerite Humeau
Orisons (past and future rainmaking songs and dances, thunderbirds flapping their wings, the ghosts of sandhill cranes who don’t come anymore), 2022
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The Underground Metamorphosis of the Magicicada, 2022
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Orisons Divination Map, 2023
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Orisons Divination Map, 2023
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Orisons Divination Map, 2023
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Russian Thistle Spins, 2023
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Russian Thistle Spins, 2023
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Russian Thistle Spins, 2023
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Spurge Dances, 2023
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Horseweed Pendulum, 2023
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Sandhill Crane Songs, 2023
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Sandhill Crane Songs, 2023
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Sandhill Crane Songs, 2023
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Russian Thistle Spins, 2023
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The Dead, The Dancers, and The Air, A shoal of fish performing a breathing ritual in an attempt to bring their dead back to life, 2019 - 2022
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Venus-Brain IV, 2019
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Venus-Brain I, 2019
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Venus-Brain XIII, 2019
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Venus-Brain IX, 2019
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Venus-Brain XI, 2019
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Marguerite Humeau
The Origin of Humankind I, 2018
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A Random Encounter, 2018
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Permanence of Myths, Finitude of Bodies, 2019
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Lascaux-Brain II (Projections), 2019
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Deep Past, High Skies, Far Future, Earth Crust, Deep Past, 2018
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The Garden of Resuscitation (Black Mulleins), 2021
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Black Spirit, A female human of an unknown age has ingested a Tasmanian devil’s brain, 2018
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Venus of Frasassi, A 10-year-old female human has ingested a rabbit’s brain, 2018
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Venus of Courbet, An 80-year-old female human has ingested the brain of a swallow, 2018
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JONNY'S CHILD (OH7B), 2017
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The Dancer II, A marine mammal invoking higher spirits, 2019
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Coeur de Marie, A relationship that you can’t get out of your head, that is still somehow alive, unfinished. It has become a mythical place, an abandoned campsite in your mental landscape. Inspired by the Bleeding Heart, the plant extract traditionally given to the brokenhearted and the codependent, as it is made of two fused flowers, each being half of a heart, 2022
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OTTO III, 2017
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Solaris, 2021
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Superior Oneness, A 70-year-old female human has ingested an alligator's brain, 2019
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Marguerite Humeau
Queen with Leopards, A 150-year-old female human has ingested a manatee’s brain, 2018
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