“These creatures had to become creative in this context—and also be extremely resilient.”
Marguerite Humeau imagines worlds in which the climate crisis has caused new kinds of creatures to alarmingly evolve. Her current exhibition at the ICA in Miami, which is being installed as she speaks to me by Zoom from a hallway in the museum, is called “*sk*/ey-,” a word she says comes from an ancient term for shedding and splitting.
The sculptures, part of an ongoing series that the artist has created with a large team of specialists ranging from scientists to mystics, are equal parts alluring and unnerving. Humeau, 37, even used three “geomancers”—people who divine magical properties at certain locations in the earth—as part of, a 160-acre project in Colorado that she says was the largest piece of land art ever undertaken by a female artist.
Miami is certainly the ideal place to exhibit them, given that it is one of the frontiers of the climate emergency. This connection was not lost on the artist. While installing her pieces, Humeau stopped to watch “huge flocks of birds” flying over the ICA and migrating to the Everglades. She noted that with her creatures escaping the burning planet and planning their journey into orbit, “there was a direct reflection of what was happening in the show.
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