Marguerite Humeau is a French artist known for immersive, large-scale installations that combine sculpture, sound and spatial design to create speculative worlds. Moving between prehistory and imagined futures, her practice transcends temporal and spatial dimensions in pursuit of mysteries of human existence. At once archaic and futuristic, animal and mineral, her work draws on scientific research while pushing beyond the limits of established knowledge, reviving lost lifeforms and forgotten ideas through imagination and speculation. Her research-led practice involves close collaborations with experts across science, anthropology, palaeontology, zoology, biomedicine and linguistics, as well as with historically marginalised forms of knowledge such as oral history and esotericism. Through its spectacular and expansive nature, Humeau’s work continuously reshapes how we perceive life, death, evolution and the unknown. Born in 1986 in Cholet, France, Marguerite Humeau lives and works in London.
