On World Elephant Day, we are honing in on the millennial-pink tinged installations of London-based artist Marguerite Humeau. Her haunting research-based works occupy a blurred boundary between evolutionary history and science fiction. For her solo exhibition FOXP2 at Nottingham Contemporary in 2017, Humeau conjured a parallel world where humans are wiped off the planet (or perhaps never existed at all) and prehistoric-sized Elephants reign supreme, having inherited the genetic mutation that allowed humans to develop vocal chords (FOXP2).
