Born 1986, France
Lives in London, Works in London and Geneva

Biography

Marguerite Humeau has exhibited her work in the most prestigious institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Talk to Me, 2011, curated by Paola Antonelli), Hayward Gallery (The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, 2013, curated by Mark Leckey), Cité du design in Saint Etienne (Politique Fiction, 2013, curated by Alexandra Midal), Mudac, De la Warr Pavilion, since she was initially noticed in 2011 with her diploma project at the Royal College of Art called Proposal for Resuscitating Prehistoric Creatures – an odyssey which quest was to resuscitate the sound and to create an opera of prehistoric creatures.

Her work has been recognised internationally through various talks, awards and publications such as Design Indaba (Cape Town), Monocle, TAR, I-D, Blueprint, Monocle, WMMNA, BLDGBLOG, Design Week, NPR, France Culture, Libération, and Le Monde, it is also part of the NY MoMA permanent collection.


Statement

Marguerite Humeau is a designer on a quest to explore contemporary myths: the grey and unknown areas of our reality.
Design is used to explore the means by which knowledge is generated in the absence of evidence, or in the impossibility of either reaching or analysing the object of investigation.
Humeau weaves factual events into speculative narratives, therefore enabling the unknown to erupt in grandiose splendour. The work is presented as a series of live science fictions: semireal,
synthetic, supernatural events.