Marguerite Humeau’s work begins with intensive research that calls upon the expertise of various specialists including historians, anthropologists, paleontologists, zoologists, linguists or conspiracy theorists. The artist seeks not only to draw together these interdisciplinary fields and push them to their limits, but also to enrich this research through artistic processes that reconsider historiography in a way that responds to our present moment. This straddling of time and space alludes to an attempt to place different worlds in dialogue with one another, exploring the possibilities of communication and knowledge gaps. Myths and patterns within the history of mankind are central to her work, leading her to invent speculative narratives that resuscitate the past as a means of interpreting current attitudes towards life, death and technology. Spanning sound, sculpture, painting, drawing and illustration, previous projects have included the resurrection of Cleopatra’s voice and the enactment of a funeral rite for an advanced elephant herd.