Edited and co-ordinated by Honey Luard and Elaine Tam 
Editorial assistance by Alex Bennett and Louise Parfitt 
Designed by Maria Amaro 
Texts by Marguerite Humeau, Susanna Greeves, Petra Lange-Berndt and Esther Leslie (translation by Kate Vanovitch) 
 
Printed by Verona Libri, Italy 
220 x 300 mm, softback 
176 pages, colour illustrations throughout 
ISBN 978-1-910844-68-7 
Published by White Cube, February 2025 
 
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. Sensitively designed, with the artist’s concepts and conceit in mind, this tactile publication uses Gmund’s textured and flecked paper range ‘Bio Cycle’. Made from environmentally friendly fibres such as wheat straw, grass, cotton and cannabis, the Bio Cycle papers are compostable and able to provide nutrients for new plants.

Susanna Greeves is Global Director, Museum Liaison, White Cube.

Petra Lange-Berndt is Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Art History Department at the University of Hamburg, and a leading researcher in the field of material studies in art history.

Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London, where she is co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and accredited as a Senior Fellow of the Higer Education Academy.