Marguerite Humeau
Wednesday 11 Dec 2019 from 6:30pm to 8pm
Free admission

On the occasion of the exhibition "You, works from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection", at the Musée d'art moderne de Paris and her nomination for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, encounter with the artist Marguerite Humeau.
Moderator: Alexandra Midal, Professor at HEAD, Geneva
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.


Marguerite 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.