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Marguerite Humeau

MARGUERITE HUMEAU

scintille White Cube 16 January–21 February 2026 New York

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White Cube New York presents a solo exhibition by Marguerite Humeau, following the artist’s touring museum exhibition ‘Torches’, which is currently on view at the Helsinki Art Museum.

Drawing from the intricate ecosystem of caves and their enveloping darkness, the artist debuts new sculptures and works on paper within an immersive installation.

‘Darkness becomes a presence that guides us towards new forms of cooperation, from a void to be conquered to a teacher of collective survival.’ – Marguerite Humeau, 2025

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Botrychium Lunaria For Tonights Dreams by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork print

Marguerite Humeau Botrychium Lunaria (For Tonight’s Dreams), 2025 Lithograph and screenprint on Somerset paper
65.6 x 47.4 cm
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Centurience possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness... by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork sculpture

Marguerite Humeau Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness..., 2025 Blown and cast glass, elixir for centurience (snail mucin filtrate, karst mineral water, calcite, cave pearls, ancient salt deposits, collagen)
119 x 51 x 38 cm
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Coalescaria the co-formed presence of paired stalagmites becoming monuments through a shared long weather the recognition that identity and strength deepen when grown together in obscurity. by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork works on paper

Marguerite Humeau Coalescaria: the co-formed presence of paired stalagmites becoming monuments through a shared long weather, the recognition that identity and strength deepen when grown together in obscurity., 2025 Pigment and charcoal on paper
199 x 162.6 cm
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Limenescence the quiet resolve to metabolise on the brink living with just enough light like root tips and algae at the caves mouth - making life from scarcity. by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork works on paper

Marguerite Humeau Limenescence: the quiet resolve to metabolise on the brink, living with just enough light, like root tips and algae at the cave’s mouth - making life from scarcity., 2025 Pigment and charcoal on paper
85.7 x 70 cm
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Noctilumen the radiance of thin roots lit by microbial films fragile strands glowing in absolute dark a refusal to disappear a brightness that exists only because darkness sharpens it. by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork works on paper

Marguerite Humeau Noctilumen: the radiance of thin roots lit by microbial films, fragile strands glowing in absolute dark, a refusal to disappear, a brightness that exists only because darkness sharpens it., 2025 Pigment and charcoal on paper
199 x 162.6 cm
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Phantomflight the dissolution of the self into a moving many an emergence. The exultant blur of bodies that rise as one an ecstatic unselfing possible only when vision falls away and motion becomes... by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork works on paper

Marguerite Humeau Phantomflight: the dissolution of the self into a moving many, an emergence. The exultant blur of bodies that rise as one, an ecstatic unselfing possible only when vision falls away and motion becomes..., 2025 Pigment and charcoal on paper
106.1 x 199 cm
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Softament The Guardian of Mineral Memory the accumulation of tiny repeated acts of faith that eventually create monuments. Change that comes from persistence that is not grand but is geological... by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork sculpture

Marguerite Humeau Softament (The Guardian of Mineral Memory): the accumulation of tiny, repeated acts of faith that eventually create monuments. Change that comes from persistence, that is not grand, but is geological..., 2025 Mineral aggregates, painted felt, tinted lacquer, blown glass, elixir for mineral memory (limestone, calcium, sulphur spring water, calcite, karst mineral water, biofilm gelatine)
377 x 120 x 108 cm
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Stillenary The Guardian of the Emergence the paradox of creating movement through perfect stillness. Monuments built by barely moving water emphasising the power of the seemingly powerless how th... by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork sculpture

Marguerite Humeau Stillenary (The Guardian of the Emergence): the paradox of creating movement through perfect stillness. Monuments built by barely moving water, emphasising the power of the seemingly powerless, how th..., 2025 Mineral aggregates, tinted lacquer, blown glass, elixir for mineral memory (limestone, calcium, sulphur spring water, calcite, karst mineral water, biofilm gelatine)
440 x 146 x 88 cm
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The Dancing Bat the one who circles loops and pivots through the roost not for display but for calibration - stirring stagnant pockets of air redistributing warmth from clustered bodies scatteri... by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork sculpture

Marguerite Humeau The Dancing Bat: the one who circles, loops, and pivots through the roost, not for display but for calibration - stirring stagnant pockets of air, redistributing warmth from clustered bodies, scatteri..., 2025 Colour-shifting cast glass; sculpture
41 x 78 x 22.5 cm
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The Guardian of the Solution Pocket protecting the secret hollows where the vulnerable hide maintaining safe spaces in the rock that remember the shape of those who need shelter - the emotion of bei... by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork sculpture

Marguerite Humeau The Guardian of the Solution Pocket: protecting the secret hollows where the vulnerable hide, maintaining safe spaces in the rock that remember the shape of those who need shelter - the emotion of bei..., 2025 Colour-shifting cast glass; sculpture
44.5 x 72 x 28.5 cm
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The Provider Beyond Bloodlines the radical generosity of nursing the hungry regardless of origin when your body becomes a common - the dissolution of mine and yours at the level of sustenance. by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork sculpture

Marguerite Humeau The Provider Beyond Bloodlines: the radical generosity of nursing the hungry regardless of origin, when your body becomes a common - the dissolution of “mine” and “yours” at the level of sustenance., 2025 Colour-shifting cast glass; sculpture
49 x 51 x 35 cm
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Translucidency the courage of flatworms whose organs glow through their skin the willingness to be seen without shields - a vulnerability made possible only when darkness removes the need to hide. by Marguerite Humeau contemporary artwork works on paper

Marguerite Humeau Translucidency: the courage of flatworms whose organs glow through their skin, the willingness to be seen without shields - a vulnerability made possible only when darkness removes the need to hide., 2025 Pigment and charcoal on paper
162.6 x 132 cm
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About the Artist

Marguerite Humeau is a contemporary artist known for her speculative, research-driven installations that blend science, myth, history, and technology into immersive artworks interrogating the origins and possible futures of life on Earth and beyond. She is best known for large-scale sculptural environments such as Torches (2025), which traverse deep time and imagined worlds through sound, light, and biomorphic forms. In 2026, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for Torches, presented at ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, and HAM Helsinki Art Museum.

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GROUP EXHIBITION White Cube at Claydon White Cube 6 June–14 September 2026 Buckingham

About the Gallery

An international art powerhouse, White Cube was established in 1993 in London by art dealer Jay Jopling. In its space on Duke Street, it served as the early exhibition venue for many now internationally acclaimed British artists, including Tracey Emin, Gilbert & George, Rachel Kneebone and Antony Gormley, who still show with the gallery today.

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White Cube contemporary art gallery in New York United States

White Cube

1002 Madison Ave, New York, United States

+1 917 900 3063
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Tuesday - Saturday
10am - 6pm

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