Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
Marguerite Humeau, Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years., 2025.
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Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years.

Date
2025

Dimensions
119 × 51 × 38 cm 46 7/8 × 20 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.

Material

Blown and cast glass, elixir for centurience (snail mucin filtrate, karst mineral water, calcite, cave pearls, ancient salt deposits, collagen)

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Centurience: possessing the primordial patience to outlast catastrophe by barely moving at all, knowing that sometimes the greatest revolution is simply refusing to hurry toward extinction. In darkness, there is no shame in remaining still, unfinished, and forever young. Completion is a kind of death, while eternal youth swims on for a hundred years.

Date
2025

Dimensions
119 × 51 × 38 cm 46 7/8 × 20 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.

Material

Blown and cast glass, elixir for centurience (snail mucin filtrate, karst mineral water, calcite, cave pearls, ancient salt deposits, collagen)

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