Marguerite Humeau lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Tate Britain; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; and, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, London; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Château de Versailles; Les Abattoirs Musée FRAC Occitanie, Toulouse; High Line, New York; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Manifesta 11, Zurich; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and elsewhere. Humeau received the Zurich Art Prize in 2017, and the Battaglia Foundry Sculpture Prize in 2018.
Works
The Drowned World at Cinesphere
Location: Ontario Place - Cinesphere
Guest curated by Charles Stankievech. During the Biennial, the Cinesphere becomes a world within a world, merging film and sound art with scent and changing atmospheric conditions. From cosmological origin stories, to a future in which civilization is extinct, The Drowned World contrasts deep time with the decline of global ecologies. The…