Join us for the launch of Marguerite Humeau’s latest publication, Auguries (2025), at White Cube Bermondsey, London. To mark the occasion, Humeau will be joined in conversation by Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Exhibitions Curator at Camden Arts Centre.
Bringing together three interconnected bodies of work, Marguerite Humeau’s first monograph Auguries is a view into some of the mysterious patterns that can be found in the natural world, from which the artist draws inspiration. From the termite colonies of the Australian outback that underpin meys, to the windswept sprawl of Orisons occupying Colorado’s San Luis Valley and its eventual figuration in Dust, this lavishly illustrated publication offers a discovery of Humeau’s manifold research and practice. Commissioned specially for Auguries, an essay by Petra Lange-Berndt considers Humeau’s practice as a laboratory combining speculation and experimentation, while Esther Leslie’s text lends voice to the poetic and esoteric dimensions of the work. An in-conversation with Susanna Greeves provides insight through the artist’s own words, and speaks to a host of contemporary concerns including technology, climate catastrophe and the place of humans, if any, in the future of Earth.
Gina Buenfeld-Murley is Exhibitions Curator at Camden Art Centre, London, where she co-curated The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree (2020–21). Her independent curatorial projects include Gäa: Holistic Science and Wisdom Tradition, at Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange, Cornwall; and Origin Story, at The Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland (both 2019). In 2017, she was resident at the Helsinki International Curatorial Programme, Finland, where she researched the place of plants within indigenous cultures including Samí shamanism in Finnish Lapland, and the sacred geometries and music of the Yawanawá, Huni Kuin and Shipibo-Conibo peoples in the Amazon Rainforest.
The talk will begin promptly at 6.30pm.
Drinks will be served.
Please note that this event is now at capacity.
