FRENCH artist Marguerite Humeau is unveiling an immersive installation titled Echoes at the Tate Britain.
Marguerite Humeau, Echoes at DUVE Gallery, Berlin. Image courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin.
Photo credits: Trevor Good
Marguerite Humeau is a French-born artist who lives and works in London. She has exhibited all around the world, including Palais de Tokyo, MOMA in New York and Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, and has won numerous international awards.
Humeau uses art to challenge key issues of the day through connecting the past with the present and blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction – this installation, Echoes, focuses on the confrontational relationship with life and death. Humeau has transformed the gallery into a combination of a laboratory and a temple. The centre of the installation is two-semi abstract sculptures based on Ancient Egyptian Gods to emphasised how organically the human body is associated with biologically engineering.
These sculptures are surrounded by long tubes that pump alligator blood, hormones and other fluids around the installation. The entire gallery has been coloured the yellow of black mamba python venom in order to evoke Cleopatra’s death and thus remind us of nature’s lethal powers. A synthetic version of Cleopatra’s voice is played in the background contributing further to the Ancient Egyptian feel of the installation.
Marguerite Humeau, Echoes at DUVE Gallery, Berlin. Image courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin.
Photo credits: Trevor Good
Echoes will be presented as part of the Art Now series of free exhibitions hosted by the Tate Britain to enable emerging artists to show their recent work and gain necessary exposure. Other artists who have exhibited through the Art Now series are Simeon Barclay, Rachel Maclean, Fiona Banner and Miroslaw Balka.
by Allie Nawrat
Humeau’s installation, Echoes, will be in place in the Tate Britain this autumn from November 17, 2017 to April 15, 2018
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