“DUST” Installation view. ©White CubeWhite Cube Seoul presents “DUST” by Marguerite Humeau, marking the artist’s debut solo exhibition in Asia. Comprising new sculptures, photography and works on paper, the works in the presentation visualise the unseen natural forces involved in the mechanics of space and time.
The works featured in “DUST” continue a line of inquiry originating in Humeau’s major land artwork ‘Orisons’ (2023), which takes place in a single 160-acre fallow crop circle in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Through an extensive period of research and close collaboration with local farmers, geomancers, conservation experts, a wildlife refuge, foragers, ornithologists and indigenous communities, Humeau discovered the San Luis Valley of the past and of the present: an area now afflicted by aridification due to climate change.
‘Orisons’ is the ancient word for prayer, and as a gesture of reparation between human and land the artist created sculptural, divination instruments informed by the native wildlife, each placed at strategic ‘activation points’ across the site and then detailed in a map along with other locations of interest. For “DUST,” Humeau has created a series of intricate sculptures that visualise the activation points of ‘Orisons’ as spacetime portals.
Marguerite Humeau (b.1986, Cholet, France) lives and works in London. She received her MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2011. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2021); Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany (2019); Museion, Bolzano, Italy (2019); New Museum, New York (2018); Tate Britain, London (2017). Humeau’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London (2024); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2021); the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019).
