Marguerite Humeau, FOXP2 (Mutation), 2016

This edition by Marguerite Humeau was produced on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary in 2016, FOXP2, Humeau’s first major solo show in a UK gallery.

This work references microscopic images of a mutated FOXP2 gene – the protein gene that is essential for human development of speech and language.

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Marguerite Humeau (b.1986) is a French born, London-based artist whose work can be found in museums collections such as the Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; MoMA, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; and X Museum, Beijing. 

Her research led process typically takes the form of large-scale installations involving sound and abstract form sculpture. Humeau has described herself as an “Indiana Jones in Google times.”

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