1min

Performance

Best Wishes 2021

Lafayette Anticipations wishes you all the best for an art-and-poetry year, accompanied by the poem "New Suns / Soleils Naissants" by the artist Marguerite Humeau. We hope to see you soon to be together, reinvent ourselves and be filled with emotion alongside the artists. Since creativity never ceases to inspire us, we will continue to metamorphose to give access to you!

Ranging from prehistory to imagined future worlds, Marguerite Humeau spans great distances in space and time in her pursuit of the mysteries of human existence.

Marguerite Humeau breathes life into lost things, whether they be lifeforms that have become extinct or ideas that have disappeared from our mental landscapes. Filling gaps in knowledge with speculation and imagined scenarios, her aim is to create new mythologies for our contemporary era.

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); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2020); Kunstverein Hamburg (2019); Museion, Bolzano (2019); New Museum, New York (2018); Tate Britain, London (2017); Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2017); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2017); Nottingham Contemporary (2016); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016).

Humeau’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Lafayette Anticipations (2024); Kunsthalle Basel (2021); the Istanbul Biennial (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); MAMVP, Paris (2019); the High Line, New York (2017); Château de Versailles, France (2017); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2017); FRAC Midi- Pyrénées, Toulouse, France (2017); Serpentine Galleries, London (2014); and Victoria and Albert Museum, Sculpture Gallery, London (2014).

Credits

New suns, poem written by Marguerite Humeau and art directed by Alice Gavin Services™

Transcript

New Suns


I wish you to weave mysterious bonds
between your own blood vessels
and others blood vessels,
fluid bonds, flexible bonds, elastic
but indestructible bonds.


I wish your existence to distort itself
towards the sun,


Let’s allow particles of light
to generate flows of energy,
solar, vivid energy,
let’s give birth to sunflowers,
let’s channel the sun rays
into new modes of subsistence,
new modes of existence,
new dances, and hot, hot synergies.


Let’s use the wind to pollinate, and kiss,


I wish you a lot of affection,
I wish you to pump your energy
through the veins
of the collapsing tree that is falling
over you
in this dark but grandiose forest.


EVERYDAY OF THIS NEW YEAR,
I wish you to enjoy the first, early morning rays of sunshine
Like the sun had just been born.


Happy New Year x

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